Burning Calories

Finally, after at least two days, the sun made an appearance!  

We left the house around 11:00 and drove to Venice for our daily walk.  We started at the Train Depot and walked the opposite direction from last week.  The trail to the right is called the Legacy Trail and to the left, this week's direction, it's called the Venetian Waterway Park.  It's a nice, wide, flat cement path along the Intracoastal Waterway.

I didn't notice it last week, but I "discovered" these murals on the opposite side of the water.

Next time we walk along here, we'll park at the far end and walk along the other side of the water.  I'll get better pictures of the murals.

We walked 1.7 miles to the Circus Bridge.  Back in the day, this area was the winter home of the Ringling Bros. Circus and a lot of things around here have circus themed names.

We think these are bat houses because if they aren't, we have no idea what they are...

It took a little more than an hour for us to get back to the truck.  From there we drove into town to have a huge slice of pizza ($4) and beverages at our favorite restaurant, Vinnies.

We drove to Caspersen Beach, which is the beginning of the Waterway path (or the end, obviously, if you start in the other direction).  We didn't get out so I couldn't get a picture of the beach but the water was a beautiful turquoise color today.

Got home around 4:00, sat on the deck and read until it got chilly.

Thanks for stopping by...

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