Once in a Lifetime Cold Snap

Its been a little disappointing as far as the weather has been the past few days and it looks like it will continue for another week or so. According to the news today, it is a "once in a lifetime" cold snap for this area. So we have to be creative on spending our days.

Yesterday we decided to explore Pine Island which is just outside Cape Coral. We were looking for some trails for hiking and biking and wanted to check out this area anyway. We found the Calusa Heritage Trail on one end of the island and were able to take the dogs on a walk and even let them loose. The bird in the nest, not an eagle - any guesses??? We continued to the very end of the island and I had the best seafood chowder of my whole life at Captain Con's. A real dive but the place was hopping and the food was excellent.

After lunch we decided to check out the other side of the island. The island is 18 miles long with lots of nurseries and undeveloped land. We tried biking but it was just a little too cool and windy so we found another trail that made a big loop and gave a chance for the dogs to run.

Today was spent looking for a new mattress for our camper. The camper is a 1991 model with the original foam mattress. After sleeping on it for a couple of nights, the mattress forms 2 holes which just sink deeper after each nite. Camping World wants almost $450 for a foam mattress so we tried looking for some new foam at fabric stores but all we could find were pieces which won't work. Gary thinks we should put in a new "real" mattress but the problem is getting it into the camper, there just isn't any room to manuever it into the sleeper. So we continue to sleep in big holes. At least its better than sleeping on the ground.