As Lucy had to work Saturday, I had spoken with a friend and he was going to come up with a kayak so we could go play on the river in the afternoon. This worked out as I spent some time in the morning working on some things I needed to take care of.
The breeze was steady around 20-30 mph out of the east with passing rain squalls every so often. The rain wouldn't last long, but some of the squalls had a lot of water with them. Combined with the overcast and low 70s, maybe not super enticing to go kayaking, but when Scott called, the sun was out so I said bring it!
I made some lunch and about 25 min later Scott called back as the 70MPH highway speed and 20-30 mph headwind, he had not attached the kayak (13 ft long tandem) for such conditions and was afraid he was going to lose it, so he got off the highway and headed home on surface streets with a promise to better engineer it.
As it turned out the above glorious sunshine didn't last more than about an hour, so we would have gotten wet no doubt.
With my afternoon free, I got on the bike and pedaled up to the gator hole about 2.5 miles from the campground. If the observation deck at Hobe Mountain would have been open, I would have gone up there (closed for renovations).
In the past I have only seen small gators at this culvert, but this one was about 7-8 ft long as I was able to get within 10 feet of him (there was a fence). He was getting warm in the sun and there was a couple there with a big camera happily snapping away.
I headed back as I knew Lucy would be back soon and with the brisk tailwind, I kicked the bike into top gear and got my heart rate up zooming back along the bike trail taking the apexes like a Moto GP rider hanging off the side of my bike. I almost hit one tree as I was pushing it (it was right on the edge of the bath coming out of a turn and I was going wide, but squeezed the brakes a tad and just missed it. Fun 2 mile sprint.
I stopped at the visitor's center on the way back to see what was going on there and realized I missed a crafting event earlier where you make a reindeer out of a cabbage palm frond. It started to rain so I zipped back to the coach and went inside.
About 20 min later Lucy showed up and we jumped in her car and went to Pleasure Tikis in Tequesta (10 min away). The folks there are great and we met them about 3 or 4 years ago at Tiki Fever. Spent about an hour there talking story and enjoying a cocktail and managed to pick up a few items for gifts and some tasty bitters for our bar.
Rolled back to the site and it wasn't looking good for a fire/outdoor cooking with constant showers so we set up the griddle inside and cooked our steak that way.
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