Lo-o-ong bike ride!

The sky looked a bit ominous this morning - could it be that the weather-man was right for a change?  He's been forecasting rain all week and it hasn't.  We decided to take a chance.  Today we biked down Hwy A1A, the main road that connects the islands where the beaches are all the way down the east coast of Florida.

And guess what?  It rained!  Only for a short time, though.  We sheltered under an overhang in front of a resort, and left as soon as it quit.  Then it started again.  :-(  Jeff and Kerry, remember that white rain Anorak (I think that's what it's called) you gave me for Christmas one year?  I pulled it on - and then it quit raining again.

We came across this Trump Resort and it is HUGE and beautiful, and then a little further down the street we came to 3 more HUGE Trump Towers!

We stopped for a break on the beach to drink our coffee and read our books.  It was a VERY hot day again, but there was quite a strong breeze, which made it bearable.

We found a pretty strange flamingo in a park by the beach.  It seems he's very patriotic!

We kept riding until we reached the end of the island, which means we have been from one end of the island(yesterday) to the other.  Even up through the inlet (to the intracoastal), the water looked that beautiful aqua-marine colour.  I think it looks that colour because of the white sand that is on the bottom.  When we had the pool at the Danforth Road house, it was plastered white, and it looked like that as well.       This area is called Haulover Beach Park.

Hollywood has had a LOT of feral cats, and this year we noticed that there are hardly any - at least we have seen very few.  I imagine this one that we saw at the inlet was feral.  He was not anxious to see me, and he scurried down among the rocks.

This boat was coming in off the ocean, going under the bridge which separates this island from the one where Miami is.

I saw this pelican from a distance and thought it was a white one.  It turned out to be a brown one, and he was just sitting there letting the waves break over him - guess he was hot too!

We saw a bunch of kites flying - this one appears to be a diver with a fish for a tail.

For the first time today we didn't take a picnic with us for our bike ride.  We decided to try this fast food place, which I had seen lots of times, but we had never tried.  It was really good food, inexpensive, and I think had healthier food than most fast food places.

By the time we got home, we were pooped - too tired to even go for a swim.  The shower was much closer!