I have some time in Tampa Bay (Florida) airport whilst waiting my delayed flight and thought it a great time to post a journal entry (since I've neglected Garretts' World).
Lisa and the kids like to go to Englewood Florida with my in-laws every year to spend time on the beach, this year I got to participate for 10 days. After spending the last few weeks of January and beginning of February in the cold winter of Maryland it was nice to enjoy just over a week in 80 degree F weather. As I sit writing this in the airport I'm still in short-sleeves (resisted wearing shorts home) and not yet ready to go back to wearing winter clothing again.
The place we stayed is 25 ft from the Gulf of Mexico and we experienced sunsets daily, see the image of one such sunset I took when I arrived.
People are not the only inhabitants of the beach - the wildlife there is rather tame, pelicans and all sorts of other native birds of Florida are quite happy to visit within a few feet if bread or crackers are on the menu. Fish in the Gulf is plentiful and my father-in-law cooked fresh fish almost every night.
We spent most of the time relaxing on the beach with a good book or two, although Lisa, Simon and I (Bella is a little young still) did steal some time to go Geocaching and we found a number of caches.
Looks like my plane is boarding, so until the next journal entry (whenever that'll be)... Godspeed.