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Well, we just spent a half week in Cedar Key, a little island on the Gulf coast of Florida north of Tampa.
This was much nicer than our vacation last May, primarily because my health is so much better. We liked the pace a lot better too, but it was really nice to, say, be able to do more than one thing a day (go to a museum AND go out to dinner!) I'm still quite restricted compared to most people, but it's so, so much better.
We had some good times. At dinner one night, looking out over the bay, we saw a trio of manatees playing quite close to the beach. We saw some beautiful marsh and swamp and sea. Sign says "Back Bayou" as you cross a small bridge into the main part of town.
Once we were taking the dogs to the little beach, and the parking lot had vanished in the couple of hours since we drove by after lunch. By evening, they'd finished tearing it up and repaving it. Apparently, we came *right* after the busy season in Cedar Key ends, the fishing season for some kind of crab (stone crab?) that goes from October to May 15th. I guess they were taking the opportunity to do a lot of town maintenance, because we saw a number of the streets get torn up and repaved while we were there.
MIL joined us for lunch yesterday, and we wandered the town with her a bit afterwards, showed her some of the cute stuff we'd seen. We saw some adorable small town Americana in the town and in the residential neighborhoods, the museum. the parks. (At one point, while we were walking down the road, someone went by hanging out the window of the pickup she was riding in and hollered, "I love your hair!") Friendly, pleasant people, friendly, pleasant shops, eeeeeeexcellent seafood.
Well, almost entirely excellent seafood. Last night we walked out of a restaurant; after waiting over an hour after we ordered, what was served was horrible and inedible. I've never just gotten up and left a restaurant before.
But everything else was FANTASTIC.
We definitely want to go back. We lucked out, it seems; after seeing all the rental cottages etc available, we definitely picked the right one; we'll be going back to Pirate's Cove too. Good site, good cabins, good prices. They also have a resident cat who sounds a lot like a seagull.
This was much nicer than our vacation last May, primarily because my health is so much better. We liked the pace a lot better too, but it was really nice to, say, be able to do more than one thing a day (go to a museum AND go out to dinner!) I'm still quite restricted compared to most people, but it's so, so much better.
We had some good times. At dinner one night, looking out over the bay, we saw a trio of manatees playing quite close to the beach. We saw some beautiful marsh and swamp and sea. Sign says "Back Bayou" as you cross a small bridge into the main part of town.
Once we were taking the dogs to the little beach, and the parking lot had vanished in the couple of hours since we drove by after lunch. By evening, they'd finished tearing it up and repaving it. Apparently, we came *right* after the busy season in Cedar Key ends, the fishing season for some kind of crab (stone crab?) that goes from October to May 15th. I guess they were taking the opportunity to do a lot of town maintenance, because we saw a number of the streets get torn up and repaved while we were there.
MIL joined us for lunch yesterday, and we wandered the town with her a bit afterwards, showed her some of the cute stuff we'd seen. We saw some adorable small town Americana in the town and in the residential neighborhoods, the museum. the parks. (At one point, while we were walking down the road, someone went by hanging out the window of the pickup she was riding in and hollered, "I love your hair!") Friendly, pleasant people, friendly, pleasant shops, eeeeeeexcellent seafood.
Well, almost entirely excellent seafood. Last night we walked out of a restaurant; after waiting over an hour after we ordered, what was served was horrible and inedible. I've never just gotten up and left a restaurant before.
But everything else was FANTASTIC.
We definitely want to go back. We lucked out, it seems; after seeing all the rental cottages etc available, we definitely picked the right one; we'll be going back to Pirate's Cove too. Good site, good cabins, good prices. They also have a resident cat who sounds a lot like a seagull.