Going the Distance

 Sunrise walk with Dee Dee followed by school work.

New signs popped up along the causeway. The county notified residents that they will be opening the causeway beaches and parking lots and some other beaches on Monday, May 4. Honeymoon Island is a state park and remains closed. Apparently, the governor is going to begin opening everything else.

I took this picture on my bike. It's the Pinellas Trail overpass (over Alt. 19) on the north end of town. The Youth Guild Park is below and the St. Joseph Sound is in the distance. Since Florida is so flat, there aren't many natural vistas where you can see into the distance, so you take what you can get with any handy elevation. This is a good park to launch kayaks.

I found this trash pick-up tool on the roadside. It was too cool for John to leave, so Coronavirus-be -damned, we now have a new tool. He was able to pick up cans and even a rubber band and discard said items properly.

We rode our bikes 20 miles, all the way to Wall Springs Park (and the water treatment plant just beyond for chilled, filtered water) and back to downtown and stopped at a few parks on the way. We rested at both terminal destinations to read and respond to emails. The picture above is Mira Vista Park. The island across the water is filled with kids enjoying the sun and water and some relief from the pandemic shutdown, as you can see in the picture below.

A view of St. Joseph's Sound from Kiwanis Park, a few blocks north of Mira Vista. The wind was making white caps.

I was out scrubbing the back walkway with vinegar, water, and scrub brush when out comes my neighbor with his pressure washer.  He said he tried to do the same thing with his back stoop, but after a few minutes he went to get a pressure washer. It's still wet in the picture above, but this slab of concrete is not going to win any beauty prizes no matter what. Anyway, it's good to have such great neighbors and a clean walkway.

It was a great day. It was 85 degrees, sunny, with a 10 mph breeze during the day and 12 mph on this evening's walk.

We walked 17.3 miles and rode 20.7 miles on bike.