Back to the beach

We left Myakka and went to Little Gasparilla Island to spend time in a beach house with William and Judy. Their kids rented the house for them for a week to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary (they were only 2 when they got married). All three kids, their spouses, and the 6 grandchildren celebrated with them over the weekend, and we joined them later in the week. They had a few small adventures before we arrived...the water heater burst into flames in the middle of the night and later a scorpion tried to join them. Thankfully everything had been stomped out, replaced, and relocated by the time we arrived.


We'd heard some bad news about the parking situation (you can only get there by boat; no bridges to Little Gasparilla), so were somewhat concerned about leaving the motor home. Thankfully, Eldred's Marina (hear the banjos?) accommodated us (for a small fee) since we used their family's water taxi for a ride to the island.


The beach house was really nice, and the beach was almost deserted.




We relaxed, walked on the beach, picked up shells, were over-served (how does that keep happening??), ate too much, enjoyed the beautiful full moon, and wished we had another week there.

It took two dinghy trips to get off the island, but the dolphin show made it worthwhile. It looks funny to see a dinghy on a trailer (especially behind such a big truck), but the guys got it loaded for the trip back to Twin Dolphin.