Thursday, January 23rd – Still chilling it.

I am not complaining—just making an observation—but I sure wish it would warm up a bit more here in Fort Myers. The past two years we wintered here we not have so many below 60° temperature days. Even though the swimming pools are heated, I am not ready to bask in this Florida sunshine yet.

After lunch, we took off on another geocaching adventure. Two sites were very close together and both of them were abandoned gas stations.

Our favorite site today, was beside a lake where we watched an alligator swimming. There was a duck very nearby. I was surprised that the duck didn’t seem alarmed and the alligator ignored it. Either the gator doesn’t like that particular duck meat or it wasn’t hungry.

 

A great blue heron visited our lake again today.

During our travels around town today, we saw a seafood restaurant and upon doing an internet search, we discovered that Skip One Seafood Restaurant was named after a fishing boat owned by the market’s original owner back in the 60s. Today the restaurant’s owner and his partner have the biggest shrimp boat fleet in Florida and their trawlers unload nearby at their Fort Myers Beach packing house.

Wild caught Florida shrimp is known as “pink gold;” it’s natural, fresh and flash frozen right out of the nets. The flavor is salty/sweet, and the texture is appealing. Every shrimp platter served at Skip One is hand peeled and deveined the day it is served. We decided to eat dinner there tonight. My shrimp and oysters were outstanding and I think we will be eating there again a few more times before we go back home.