Sun-N-Fun Resort, Sarasota, FL:  Woke up to the sound of rain this morning.  Just hung out and watched the Missouri football game and a couple of movies.  Biked around a little in between rain drops.  Had turkey left-overs for dinner.  We leave tomorrow morning for Koreshan State Historic Site south of Ft. Myers.  Oh, and one bad thing about this park—the water.  Tastes and smells like sulfur.  Fortunately we have a filter on the kitchen faucet.  

Lawn Bowling Court--Sun-N-Fun Resort

Park Models--Sun-N-Fun Resort

Butterfly Garden--Sun-N-Fun Resort

Sun-N-Fun Resort, Sarasota, FL:  This morning we put clean sheets on the bed and then headed over to Woodland Hall to wash the dirty ones along with some other stuff.  I sat over in the butterfly garden with my book while waiting.  After getting the laundry done we donned our bathing suits and headed over to the pool. Mike headed over to the lawn bowling game first to see what it was all about and I continued on to the pool.  Got in and joined the tail end of a water aerobics class.  I don’t know why they don’t just swim around for exercise.  After hanging around the pool for a while we biked back to our site and changed into dry clothes and then biked back to the grill for lunch.  They have a grill and tiki bar plus a full-service restaurant.  Back to our site and relaxed outside reading for a while.  Mike went in to get on the computer and I sat outside enjoying this beautiful day.  It’s really quiet where we are—the only noise is the thrum of the air conditioners.  Some of these park models in here are really cute.  Great place to live really. 

  

Butterfly Garden

All the drinking fountains have a little bowl for the dogs

Pasco Winter Quarters, Land-O-Lakes, FL, to Sun-N-Fun RV Resort, Sarasota, FL:  Not much on TV last night but we found two great shows on PBS—one on Florida history with an emphasis on the Tampa and Ybor City area, and the other on Stiltsville, which we’d never heard of.  Stiltsville is a group of wood stilt houses located one mile south of Cape Florida on Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The structures stand on wood or reinforced concrete pilings, generally ten feet above the shallow water which varies from one to three feet deep at low tide. Started in the 30s, they reached their peak back in the 60s with around 19 homes—and even several social clubs (Crawfish Eddies, Quarterdeck Club, Bikini Club, Rod & Reel Club) attracting a lot of connected businessmen and politicians, and celebrities were seen out there all the time  Tony Roma, the restaurateur, owned one of the homes there.  The area of Biscayne Bay where the seven remaining houses stood was deeded to the National Park Service and slated to be torn down.  But a bunch of activists got together and stopped it (S.O.S.—Save Old Stiltsville).  They can only be seen from land at Bill Boggs Cape Florida SP which is just south of Miami.  We plan on heading over there when we’re staying at the Everglades.  With a permit you can actually stay at one of the houses.  Wouldn’t THAT be fun!  We left Pasco Winter Quarters around noon and arrived at Sun-N-Fun and were set up by 2:00.