Beach, birds, and beauty

We sit here watching the ducks and turtles tuck and swirl around in the water in balmy temps of 78. As our weatherman likes to point out, this is the time of year in which envy runs rampant throughout the rest of the country that is experiencing Winter with a capital W. As is Star Mt. we hear. Of course for the mountain  (CB that is) there is joy and anticipation for the ski season coming soon.

Been doing a bit of fun activities here and there. Saw Interstellar at our favorite movie theatre - Silverspot on our one rainy day so far. Hard to beat with reserved seats, enormous leather chairs,and the latest projection technology. Makes a bad movie almost palatable, but Interstellar was very good in case you were wondering. Also spent a pleasant happy hour at the same center (Mercato) at another favorite spot - AZN.

Broke out the new chairs and umbrella

Ah, the beach. Finally made it, rough drive- a grand total of 7 minutes to make it there. It's a fabulous public beach (Delnor-Wiggins State Park) with one mile of pristine sand, great fishing at the Wiggins Pass(so we hear - Mark will let you know) and the cost to get in, a whopping $6 a car, $2 if you're a walker.

Quite windy, but wonderful temperature. In fact, the umbrella tried to blow away. The second anchoring worked better. You can rent every kind of water toy there is, but saw virtually none of that due to the wind.

A lone Muscovy duck appeared yesterday. He looked quite sure I had food for him which I did not. Wild should stay wild. Apparently in large groups these are considered quite a nuisance. I couldn't figure out if it was visual (those crazy red bumps), giant quantities of droppings everywhere, or both.

The wildlife is very bird oriented and I do love all that. No sighting of otters, we're three weeks in so I'm thinking they've left the area- too bad. Mark's had one alligator sighting when he played golf but nothing for me yet.

Travel on the horizon for Mark again, Indy for a couple of days this week and next which gets a little dicey close as it is to Thanksgiving.