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Monday, 4 March, 2013 Have you noticed I seem to run out of things to write as we near the end of a trip? This has been a fairly quiet week. We had softball on Tuesday and Thursday as usual. I took a few pictures at the games, which wouldn’t interest most of you. We did some laundry, some grocery shopping, the normal day to day activities. I rode my bicycle a little around the campground. The weather turned cooler over this past weekend, with some rain showers mixed in. By Sunday morning it was cool and quite windy with morning showers. Whether or not the softball game on Sunday afternoon would be played as scheduled was in question. Once we reached the park, however, all doubts were gone. We were early, but already a dozen ... read more

Monday, 18 February 2013 Happy Presidents’ Day. Let’s get caught up. Wednesday we drove down to Summerland Key to the Wharf Bar and Grill for supper where we dined on BLTs. Not just bacon, lettuce and tomato, but bacon, LOBSTER and tomato, huge sandwiches too tasty to be served just anywhere. We could have split one and had plenty, but we didn’t know that and ordered a sandwich and fries each. Needless to say, we did not go home hungry. Thursday was another big day, softball in the morning and wings at night. It was just one more fabulous day here in the Keys. We rode our bicycles around the park on Friday, stopping at the Sand and Sea Nature Center and the Gift shop before heading back to the camper to avoid the rain. It ... read more

Thursday, 7 February, 2013 Tuesday was softball day again and another good turnout. Afterwards we went to the Laundromat and now have plenty of clean clothes. Yesterday was a good day to go to the Keys Turtle Hospital in Marathon. They rescue, rehabilitate and release injured and sick sea turtles. They have some permanent resident turtles, as they can’t release them if they are missing a limb or have what they call bubble butt. Bubble butt is when an injury causes air bubbles to collect under the shell, preventing them from diving as deep as they need to feed. Sea turtles main defense is their speed, and if they are missing a fin or have bubble butt, that really slows them down. They glue weights to the turtles’ shells to help them balance and dive in ... read more

Thursday, 31 January, 2013 Monday we came back to beautiful Long Key State Park, back to site 57 for a few days. I think Long Key is our favorite park now, we love being right on the water. Crossing the bridges and looking out over the gorgeous colors of the water in Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is always a treat. Once set up, we waded out into the Atlantic. The tide was out and it was very shallow a good ways out. We enjoyed watching the birds at low tide picking around in the water. Tuesday was another softball day and what a turnout there was, 28 players. It was a good game and everyone seemed to have fun even though the score was a bit lopsided, 22-10. The weather was great, as usual, ... read more

Tuesday, 22 January, 2013 Sunday we had to move campsites, from site 53 to site 57, a short easy move. One would think. The folks in site 57 were in no hurry as they were only moving down to site 14. Checkout is at one and Kerry had a softball game at two, so we were feeling a bit rushed to get moved. To top that off, Herb and Pam were coming down and we weren’t sure when they would get here, where we would be, etc. We really wanted to leave the park by one, but the guy in our site didn’t pull out until 1:10, so again we leveled, unhooked, plugged in and left for the ball field. There was a big turnout of players for the game so they decided to play 9 ... read more