January 8, 2015 ~ Perdido Key, FL to Niceville, FL
I spent the morning in cold sunshine driving to Niceville, FL, stopping at a Starbucks in the town of Mary Esther, which name obviously appealed to me. A few homes had sprinklers on with all the flora covered in thick sparkling ice. It remained below freezing for several hours after sunrise.
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| Mary Esther, Mississippi |
Niceville is the town where my college roommate and her husband live. I spent the night with them, having a wonderful respite - talking for hours, walking the white sand beaches while Gail was in a meeting for Friends of Henderson State Park, eating Chinese for lunch and pizza for dinner, exchanging books, visiting the community college where she taught after her
first retirement ended, hearing of their adventures in Africa (and the other places they have lived, including Alaska), admiring their lovely interesting home, sleeping in a comfortable warm bed, getting clean, washing clothes, enjoying a hearty breakfast of eggs, sausage and homemade pecan-cranberry-bran muffins... and finally gratefully accepting a goody bag of food for the road.
While the temperatures were in the 40s, it was sunny and there was no wind so walking the amazingly beautiful beach at Henderson SP was a delightful. I watched individual Sanderlings run the water-line, constantly adjusting to the rhythm of the small waves breaking on the sand. The Gulf water was a clear blue-green.
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| Ring-billed Gull and Sanderling at Henderson State Park - FL |
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