Day 41 on Captiva

Thursday morning-another beautiful sunrise:

Today we took our coffee to the dock on the bay and watched another beautiful sunrise at 7:45. I spotted a yellow-crowned Night Heron  in the mangroves by the dock but missed getting a photo.
We enjoyed seeing several birds welcoming the sunrise and these are some of their photos:

 

These are photos made by Al of the sunrise:

 

 

 

We then drove to Ding Darling to check out the birds there.  Since it was not low tide, we did not know if we would spot many birds.  Instead of the White Pelicans sitting in groups, we find them swimming and feeding all spread out.

 

Other birds we saw on the drive:

 

 

Since this is post is loaded with so many photos, I will continue Day 41 in another post.

Note:I am actually writing this post on March 20 to complete my diary of  all the days of this trip.

Day 37 on Captiva

Edited to add beach photos.

Sun just beginning to show at 7:45am.

Sunday morning means a trip to the Farmers' Market....the last one for this trip.  But first we took in a beautiful sunrise over the bay as we drank our coffee sitting on the dock on the bay.  Sounds like a song.....

 

 

 

Then off to the Farmers' Market for tomatoes, avocado, lettuce, mushrooms, etc and some seafood from the Fish Booth.  Also bought our weekly bouquet of flowers.

Flowers from Farmers' Market

 After the Farmers' Market we had breakfast at Sanibel Café.  Al had the Lox and Bagel Platter and I had a grilled croissant with scrambled eggs, ham, tomatoes and Havarti cheese.  We made a quick stop at Jerry's for some groceries and wine. We made a quick drive through DDWR on the drive home and got some good shots of a dancing Reddish Egret, Blue Heron and Yellow -crowned Night Heron.

 Again we spent some time on the beach with a large number of willets and dolphins swimming by.

For dinner Al grilled some great large scallops which we enjoyed with lemon orzo and an arugula salad with strawberries and a lemon vinaigrette.  Notice his great grill marks on the scallops in the photo below.