Yesterday we headed out for a "family" trip to the beach. This area of Florida seems to be quite dog friendly (surprising to me) and there are half a dozen or so dog friendly beaches within 30 miles or so. With the local edition of "Pet Pages" in hand off we went.
We "landed" at a marvelous beach in Juno - just south of Jupiter. I am still amazed at how dog friendly, really dog and people visitor friendly the area is - free parking, "poop" bags all along the beach, no signs with 30 rules and regulations listed - just the concept that perhaps, just perhaps and hopefully we will all do the right thing. What a great concept it is - so appreciated, and hopefully appreciated by the masses so it doesn't have to change.
So so windy it was, that we didn't let Sir off leash to run and frolic in the water - it was too rough for us to let him go as we normally would have in such an area. Look at his ears in the shot above - isn't that funny how they are blowing backwards! Guess the wind was blowing strongly to the east huh!
We traveled north along US 1 and A1A after we left the beach and ended up in Jupiter then Hobe Sound. Jupiter was having a day long "celebrity dog wash" event to raise funds for the local no kill shelter. One of the "headliners" (other than the multitude of dogs) was one of Patrick's "hero's" ~ Joan Jett ... Joan entertained the troops in Bosnia when Patrick was there, hence a fan was created!
Heading south after Jupiter and Hobe Sound on our way (slowly) back to Loxahatchee we got closer and closer to this fire - Man it looked like there must be about a ten square mile area on fire. We pulled over at the entrance to the Jonathan Dickinson State Park for Rick to take these photos. Come to find out this was a "controlled burn" - holy macaroni the winds were pretty darned intense and this burn went ahead as planned!?!?!?
There is a campground at this state park - as with many many Florida State Parks. When we went by yesterday there appeared to be many empty spaces, which was quite distressing because if you go on line to try to reserve a site their damned reservation system shows nothing available! Incredibly frustrating as clearly there was more than a couple sites available here yesterday - very very frustrating as our preference is usually state or county parks - they are much more spacious than private parks and usually you can have a campfire at them!!
The weather was gorgeous (70's) today - a great riding day. King Richard went out for a few hours (yes, as King is quick to point out, my bike hasn't come out of the trailer here, he forgets I don't ride alone and he was gone for five days then I left for eight days not to mention the weather not exactly conducive to riding ~ even for the King)~ and I stayed here and worked on Amy's veil for a while then headed to the outside television to watch the Red Sox .. umm not so much though because as soon as the game was to come on the channel shut off - apparently at 1:00 it became an additional fee channel!!! UGH! So Sir and I stayed out there and enjoyed the sun and warm weather - Sir enjoyed a spare rib bone left from Rick's baby backs from last night and I enjoyed a large iced coffee and a few chapters of a new book (into Nicholas Sparks these days ~ need a break from Danielle Steel and Nora Roberts for a book or two).
Tomorrow (Monday) I am off to spend half a day with the quilting ladies that I "connected" with while working on the Chad and Amy quilt ... tomorrow will be my last time with them as we will be leaving here next Sunday and heading north to Mims (near Kennedy Space Center where we were a year or two ago) for a couple nights then on to Jacksonville where we will be for a month or more - need to get Sir to the vet there for some "boosters" before he can be boarded and we will be flying out of there for THE wedding.
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