Our First Week at Sunset Beach, Treasure Island

As its name suggests, the sunset views here are spectacular. While we cook dinner, we can look out our window and watch the colors. It reminds us to go out and photograph the sunset. We have also been busy taking daily long walks on the sandy beach. visiting Jen and Eric and getting our cars windshield repaired.

It hasn’t been any problem getting our daily steps. All we have to do is cross the narrow street, walk over the dunes using the boardwalk and then turn either left or right. If we turn left, we walk down to Blind Pass. It got its name because it appears to be a blind dead end instead of a large pass allowing boats to travel protected behind many of the barrier islands.

The walk takes us about an hour, and we pass two groins which are rock jetties built to keep sand from washing away. One day we watched a s a school of blue fish surrounded bait against the rocks and then feed as only bait fish can do. We watched several fishermen as they fought the bluefish before getting cut off from their razor-sharp teeth, (we don’t know how to correctly cook blue fish as we have no grill available here and they are an oily fish).

If we turn right, we can walk a little further, up to the Biltmore, a large beach front motel. There the remnants of the sandcastle competition still stand even with some rain and heavy winds. There was some damage to some of the sculptures, but the sand sculptures are actually cemented with a glue and water mixture to preserve them

Every day we are visited by a large flock of Nanaday Parrots. They were introduced to southern Florida and now have established a successful breeding colony. They announce their presence with loud harsh calls and they all seem to be talking to each other st the same time!

Another day Jen and Eric invited us over for dinner, and Jen grilled steaks at their condominium. We didn’t fish but we had already spent a day catching fish after fish along their seawall. Its fun catching the small fish even though we don’t eat them and every time we catch one, we usually don’t know what they are. Several we small groupers and they fight light a really large bass, (By the way we used an Fish Bites which worked great as the fish quickly stripped the squid off of our hooks and I do not mention any product unless it really impresses me as we get nothing money wise from our blog)

We decided to get our windshield repaired at a nearby Subaru dealer and the service department told us to call an independent windshield company. They also told us to be sure to use Subaru glass as OEM glass did not have the correct tint so the safety cameras would not work. The repair took place in our condo parking lot and two days later the cameras got calibrated by the dealer.

It cost a lot less than we expected and now everything works as it should. So, we are relaxing and enjoying it here and we do have several trips planned, including one hunting for fossil sharks’ teeth!

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