Rainwater Beach

The idea was to spend some beach time with good friends who both lived in the area and had also travelled from the West Coast to coincide a trip with us. Arriving in, not so Clearwater, we hoped that the rain that had followed us from Naples would soon pass. Wrong! Evidently a tropical storm had created a rain cloud, hundreds of miles wide that decided to slow down as it reached the coast.
So for the first two days this was the view from our window.

It had to happen eventually, after all, we had gone 10 weeks had had not seen any daytime rain at all. But rain it did and all thoughts of doing much evaporated with the sunshine.

Fortunately on the third day we awoke to this

so normal service was resumed, until the next day when it didn't stop again until we left. Some pictures of birds in the garden is all we could get.

They looked miserable in the rain too.

Of course we also got to visit our good friends Raul and Shauna, who had brought wee Marley into the world just the week before. She is gorgeous and no doubt will grow into a beautiful girl.

Jake doing her auntie bit.

Ooh, I'm so tired.

Although we didn't get out much, we did enjoy wonderful evenings with all our friends and once again, thank you all so much for your hospitality and fun times. We will have to return in the sun and do it again one day.