My DIY Projects and Great Adventures

[Micanopy]

Back from Don Cesar’s in St Pete Beach. The palace was beautiful but the room was small ( $350 a night ) and they charged extra for everything. Parking was $50 for two days. To rent a chair with umbrella on the beach was $200. Drinks at the pool $20 a pop. We explored the castle which was built 100 years ago and found many secrets. We ventured up the staircases into the towers and the views were awesome. Grand ballrooms sit idyl and unused, relics of a bygone age. Learned that the building was almost destroyed and had served as an Army hospital during the great war. Supposedly haunted by ghosts though we heard no plaintiff wails.




The beach was white sand and clean water with horseshoe crabs. I found a large conch shell and upon lifting it discovered a huge hermit crab living inside. Saw ospreys catching fish within feet of us as we floated about. I got a little too much Sun and had to go hide myself at the pool, of which they have two.





They have several restaurants inside the resort and we dined at the fanciest of them. She had triple tail on a bed of rice with with squid ink. Very nice.



I had cobia.



Four diamond rating and the deserts were super good and she had some wine. She was beautiful and dressed very nicely and she loved everything. Worth every penny to see her shining.






Then back home and we went out on the boat this morning.



We started our morning searching for large lizards as she is quite good at spotting them. There were some little ones and a few big devils swimming about for her amusement.

She let me fish a little and we landed couple dozen pretty quickly.




Felt great to start fishing and have four rods out……and catch fish so quickly. Had three on at same time. I wanted to stay and troll for more but she wanted to explore some. She enjoys getting back into the cypress trees and seeing what is waiting for her back in there.

My Lady of the Lake.






And of course she wanted to swim with the dragons. Says she has nightmares couple of times a month about being eaten by gators. I get nervous but she insists.



It got a little too hot for her so we headed home. Buying that boat was a great idea and happy I found this new hobby.

Sorry about the sideways pictures.