Sights and Sounds Sixty

The first half of day three on Sanibel was spent checking out some of the shops. There isn't a whole lot which i was pretty happy about. There was a couple of pretty cool art shops though. We also had to go back to Jerry's Grocery store to buy some more supplies which included lots of water. The island water tastes pretty bad and makes tea and coffee taste a little odd too. After a lunch of fried chicken we headed back out on to the beach for while. I sipped on a few ice cold ciders and watched the pelicans and seagulls diving into the sea for fish. Dusti only lasted about 45 minutes before heading back inside. She was a worried about getting too burned as she got a little too much sun the day before.

In the evening we booked a trip on the Tarpon Bay Explorers sunset cruise. It was a 1.5 hour trip of viewing wildlife and was very educational. The entire bay is no deeper than 5 feet and is basically the ecosystems nurturing ground for all the young wildlife from fish to dolphins to birds they are learn their trade in this shallow water before going out into the Gulf of Mexico. The bay is surrounded by Mangrove trees which are the only trees in the world that can grow in salt water. We saw a turtle, a couple of Manatees and countless number of birds. The sunset cruise is apparently the best one as all the birds return to the rooks for evening. It was quite a site watching them all fly back. The guide pointed out how the young pelicans were still learning how to land on the trees as they weren't as experienced at navigating through the strong breeze as the grown up pelicans were. All in all it was a fun although i was a little disappointed not to see any Dolphins.