Saturday, March 21, 2009

A Lovely Day Anyway

Our friends, John and Marcia Murray from Illinois, came over about 12:30 and we went on an outing. John and Marcia have been coming to this area for 5 years so have gotten around a bit and were our tour guides for the day. We made 2 stops, one at KFC and one at Subway to ensure that everyone was happy with their food.

We went to a park in Cape Coral that was on the water. It was sunny and a bit windy but just a delightful setting to relax at the shady picnic table, eat, talk, laugh at John picking on Ed, and enjoy watching the water.


We drove to a big development on the water, checked out the menu at the Rumrunner restaurant (I'd like to dine there one of these days), and browsed through a few shops.

Cape Coral is famous for its
Burrowing Owls. There are little protected areas staked out here and there, several of which are near the library. The owls are only about 6 inches tall and you might see these little yellow eyes peep up out of one of the holes. There are little wood perches right by every hole, which they use. John and Marcia have seen them sitting on the perches - but we had no luck today.

The luck was that we got out and about and we had a delightful afternoon with our new-found friends!

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