Wednesday

We got a good shot of the gator this afternoon at Lake Saundra. He’s about three feet long.

He swims up to the bank if people are around, which is not a good thing. It’s likely that he does that because people are feeding him.

They say to assume that every body of water in Florida has a gator in it.

On our morning walk, Toby spotted these two friends. Laya is the greyhound. Everyone did their greeting and happily moved on. It’s so nice to be able to do this.

There were lots of kayakers and paddle boarders out in the sound today. I got this picture from the drawbridge.

There was no evidence of Red Tide today.

We did some more house chores and maintenance. Toby got a bath. My hands and wrists were sore from yesterday’s house washing, so John did the heavy lifting. (I thought I took it easy yesterday, but apparently I was a bit too ambitious.)

The high was 88. It started off with some sun, but it got increasingly cloudy today. Then it rained for a couple of hours in the late afternoon, typical summer weather.

Today’s bike route to the causeway.

Miles walked: 9.6

Miles biked: 5.74

The end of the month signals the time to take stock of our walking and biking. Here are the latest figures for this month and the previous months:

June Walking, Average Miles Per Day

7.3 (219 miles total)

June Biking
25 days of riding, 407.60 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 16.30

 

Previous months walking 

May

6.8 (210 miles total)

April 

8.2 

 

March 

8.6 

 

February 

8.1

 

January
7.0 miles

 

December 

5.6 miles

 

November

5.2 miles 

 

October 

6.7 miles

September
8.5 miles 

August
6.3 miles

July
6.7 miles

June
5.8 miles

Previous months biking:

May

24 days of riding, 281.43 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 11.73  

April 
20 days of riding, 224.65 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 11.23 

March
22 days of riding, 222.18 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 10.10 

February 
7 days of riding, 78.62 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 11.23

January
17 rides, 97.31 total miles, Average distance per day/ride: 5.72

December
17 rides, 130.59 total  miles, Average distance per ride: 7.68

November
16 rides, 88.08 total miles, Average distance per ride: 5.51

October  
18 rides, 240.44 total miles, Average distance per ride: 13.36

September
23 rides, 412.04 total miles, Avg distance: 17.91 miles

August
24 rides, 355.91 total miles, Avg distance: 14.83 miles

July
23 rides, 274.26 total miles, Avg distance: 11.92 miles

 

June

20 rides, 264.25 total miles, Avg. distance: 13.21 miles