We woke up this morning thinking it wouldn't be as windy as the last few days, but we were wrong! Many of the "regular campers" here we've talked to that come year after year say this time of the year is typically very windy.
We decided to go for a bike ride to explore some different beaches around Marathon knowing that we would have a tail wind on the way out, but would be riding into a head wind on the way back.
One of the fun things I've been doing is recording our bike rides and walks using the GPS on my phone and the website MapMyFitness.com. We've logged about 70 miles since March 1 - so I'm definitely getting more activity than my normal lifestyle. Love it!
One of the beaches we saw was the Coco Plum Beach. You can see how great our bike trailer is, too, for hauling beach supplies as well as groceries!
Here is Greg at the entrance to Coco Plum Beach - you can see how beautiful it is!
You can imagine that we were a little surprised to see a totally empty beach!
But once we stepped onto the beach, we knew why! It was so windy!!
(As a matter of fact, after we biked back to the campground in the head wind, we stopped at the ranger station to confirm what we already thought - The winds today were 30 miles per hour with gusts between 35-40!)
With all that biking in the wind, we decided to stop at Leigh Ann's Coffee House and get some coffee. It was a very fun place - it looks like they also do wine tastings as well as serve coffee, sandwiches and salads.
Here we are resting up and enjoying our coffees before the final bike ride back to Curry Hammock!
We're having some guests for dinner tonight, and then tomorrow, we'll be leaving for John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
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