Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Put our bikes on the back of the truck this morning and stopped at the Sugarloaf Lodge for breakfast.  We haven’t been here for 2 years because the restaurant has been closed for renovations.  They gutted the whole place and redid it.  It’s beautiful!  And the menu is all Italian.  The new name is ZaZa’s.  We both had Italian fennel sausage, eggs, and potatoes.  Really good.  A lot of the ingredients used are imported direct from Italy.  I want to try dinner there some night.  After breakfast we drove across Hwy. 1, parked the truck and then headed out on our bike ride.  Rode the bike path through this really nice residential area on Sugarloaf Dr. to the end and then took the old state road which is barricaded so no cars can access it.  It’s a great ride down through a lush tropical landscape with little lagoons and backwaters off both the bay side and the Atlantic side.  It dead ends at a little lake (formerly a quarry).  Walked around the lake and took the little path out to the Atlantic.  You can walk out quite a ways on this big rock ledge, and when the tide is out you can see all kinds of critters trapped in the water left behind in the hollows.  Unfortunately, the tide was coming in so we couldn’t walk out too far. Biked back with the wind at our backs.  Much easier than starting out because the wind was in our face and made for a lot more work.  Back home, put the bikes away and sat down to relax a little and Bastion woofed—wanting a walk for sure.  So we took him around the lake and down Johnson Road.  He would have gone further, but we were pooped.  Took him back to his site and gave him a treat.  Lorraine stopped by and told us all about the Mardi Gras party last night at the clubhouse.  We had grounded ourselves after Tuesday night’s revelry. After Lorraine left I took my slimy self and took another shower.  A beautiful day today.  Probably low 80s today.

Our bike ride takes us over this little channel that goes out to the Atlantic.  People jump off the bridge and swim in here.

Biking on the old state road

Bay side

Trail out to the Atlantic

Big stone ledge with the Atlantic in the background

Our neighbors, John and Sandy, all dressed up for Mardi Gras