FL15 - Day 15 - The last full day - Sarasota
Our last full day in Florida so we decided that after a day lost to the rain yesterday we needed to get out.
I checked on Tripadvisor and found the Burroughs House in Fort Myers. It has RSVP tours and I guessed that might be you asked and they replied. I emailed the coordinator early.
By the time we finished breakfast we'd not had a reply so we decided on the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota.
The run up US41 was a bit busier than usual but not a problem.
The gardens cost a curious $19 for adults. The gardens specialise in bromeliads and orchids feature highly.
Sadly, today is the first day I didn't cover my exposed parts in Off! and within minutes the mozzies had found me.
It got so bad we went to Publix and bought some more spray. Before we left the car park we had covered ourselves. It worked.
We spent a few hours around the gardens looking at all the orchids and trees.
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I checked on Tripadvisor and found the Burroughs House in Fort Myers. It has RSVP tours and I guessed that might be you asked and they replied. I emailed the coordinator early.
By the time we finished breakfast we'd not had a reply so we decided on the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota.
The run up US41 was a bit busier than usual but not a problem.
The gardens cost a curious $19 for adults. The gardens specialise in bromeliads and orchids feature highly.
Sadly, today is the first day I didn't cover my exposed parts in Off! and within minutes the mozzies had found me.
It got so bad we went to Publix and bought some more spray. Before we left the car park we had covered ourselves. It worked.
We spent a few hours around the gardens looking at all the orchids and trees.
The gardens have a pond full of koi carp.
From the gardens we went round to O'Leary's for lunch. As has become our custom we have one dish between us. Today Mahi-Mahi wrap. Very nice.
In Sarasota they have a problem with backing into a parking space. When we returned to the car the one next to us and a Harley next to it had tickets. Both of them were backed in. Seems weird to us normal people and the bike 'violation' is nonsensical.
Nice bike though.
Once back in the "efficiency" we put on the coffee and had a read and caught up on wifi.
Dinner was out for the first time in days at Tratoria da Mino on Venice.
They cater for the old and gave a combo of half portions of lasagne, soup and salad for $9. It was really good and didn't fill you up too much.
We got back in time to almost miss the last sunset.
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