Our days are full and I haven’t blogged for the past three days!! We took a break from the record breaking heat and went to an RV dealership and checked out some buses. This one is a Newmar that we really liked. This salesman was VERY informative and gave us lots of good information for comparisons to different buses.
The next day we went golfing again at Alden Pines. Last day for that course; too much water and fairways aren’t in very good shape. Monday we will play a different course!
Yesterday we did our new favorite activity. This time we parked on Captiva Island and tried the shelling there for a while. Had some luck but nothing like the state park we had visited a few days before. We also tried shelling on Sanibel again but only found a few conchs and olives; no big shells or sand dollars.
These are olives. Some conchs we found.
The slope of the beaches is much different from what we experience in the Carolina beaches. They all have ledges and are sloped. I guess that makes the shelling better as the waves pound on the ledges pushing shells up onto the beaches. We went at low tide which is the best time to get the most shells. This put us leaving in the heavy traffic though as we can’t stay away too long because of our little dog. The islands are actually only about 6 miles from our campsite as the crow flies but they’re actually a 38 mile drive. The drive home took us two hours as the traffic getting off Sanibel was very heavy. That took an hour and it’s only about a ten mile drive. Driving through the fishing town of Matlacha is very time consuming as well as everyone seems to go to dinner/bars quite early and the roads are narrow and heavily traveled. Did you know the word Matlacha comes from a Calusa word meaning “neck high water”. Before a channel was dug in Matlacha Pass to create a causeway for the bridge, people could wade from Pine Island to the mainland at low tide. There’s your history lesson for today!
Camping Konneys 