A little cooler today at around 23C whereas Ottawa made it to around 28C! We had mostly overcast skies and the odd burst of rain. Overnight and tomorrow are forecast to have thunder storms and up to 2″ of rain.
This morning was cleaning morning, then after lunch we headed down towards the coast to a nature area. On the way down we saw a billboard sign for Sweetie Pies, this was a good and bad thing. Last year we discovered this place and it sold fantastic home made pies by the slice. We thought that it had closed down as we couldn’t see the store sign from the road. Definitely worth dropping into on the way home.
We found the nature area and walked about a mile down a sandy track to an observation tower. Unlike Texas there was no wildlife to be seen around the waters edge. On the walk back we saw a couple of tiny lizards scurrying across the track in front of us. We also saw an Alabama blue flowered pine cone that had fallen onto a bench.
Blue Flowered Pine Cone
The next place to go was a track down to the beach known as alligator alley. There are a couple of ponds off to the side of the road that are a known “hang-out” for ‘gators. Unfortunately there were none there today. We continued down the track to the beach, but the wind was picking up, and the rain starting, so we just sat in the truck and watched some fairly active wave activity.
On the way home we stopped in at Sweetie Pies, the store was still there!! Unfortunately there was nothing inside, the place closed down just after Christmas 🙁