Very Busy and Fun Day in the Venice Area!

Well, it was an interesting morning!  Ken hooked up our sewer hose today - we only needed 50 feet!!  For you RVers, you know that is a lot of feet of hose!  That is because alll of our hookups are on the wrong side of Willie!  Just how some of the sites are set up in this CG.  It's crazy!  Then he loaded our bikes for our trip into Venice.  I was in charge of breakfast and packing lunches!

We left the CG around 10:30 and headed to the Farmer's Market, part craft show in downtown Venice.  Ken met up with Raphaella Vaisseau who paints 60's type paintings with simple, profound sayings on them.  He almost bought a large poster from her 2 years ago, but decided against it.  He talks about it every time we come to Florida.  So, today he decided which 9 photos he wanted on a poster along with the saying he wanted at the top of the poster.  She will mail it to him the beginning of April.  Ken was excited.  You may enjoy her website at http://www.heartfulart.com/ 

Then we rode our bikes to the 85th Annual Beach Bash on Venice Beach complete with food, music, fun events for kids, and info on Venice.  Back on our bikes to ride to Sharkys Pier and to a beautiful, new park where we ate our packed lunch.  We did some hunting for sharks teeth with limited success.  Then on our bikes again to head to Caspersen Beach.  More searching for Shark's teeth.  Then we rode the Intracoastal Waterway Bike trail and saw many interesting animals and birds - Blue Heron, Florida Scrub Jay, Gopher Turtle, and Dolphin.  Back into Venice after riding 11 1/2 miles.  It was a good ride!

Back to CG by 5:30.  Cooked dinner and then relaxed.  It was a busy and tiring day! 

Bonnie riding the Intracoastal Waterway Trail!
So nice to see all the boats along the way!

The bike trail winds through and around some housing
developments.  It is beautiful!

Gopher turtle eating his supper!

Saw a Dolphin too!

Blue Heron watching a boat on the Intracoastal Waterway!

What a beautiful blue heron!



Another chance to feed peanuts to the
endangered Florida Scrub Jay!



Looking for Sharks teeth on Caspersen Beach!

Dead Stingray on the pier at Sharkys!



Musical group at the Beach Bash on Venice Beach!



This is the artist that Ken order the colorful 60's type
painted pictures from.  Loved the simple, but profound sayings

The doggie taxi was a hoot!!!!

A different use for a segway!

The Farmers Market and part Craft Show
in Downtown Venice!