Florida Gulf Coast, November 6-11, 2009
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 | Filed under: Out Of TownAnother trip to Longboat Key, Florida at the beginning of November . . .
They were selling Yankees gear in the JetBlue terminal at JFK on the morning of November 6:
Meanwhile, flying over a thoroughly dejected city of Philadelphia:
The beach at Longboat Key. I think this is a Great Blue Heron:
There’s this great vestigial ranch house sitting abandoned among the resorts along the beach:
Hurricane Ida kicked up relatively big waves on the 9th of November:
We stayed, as usual, at the Four Winds Beach Resort. Here are pictures of the St. Mary Star of the Sea Church.
In Sarasota, Central Avenue in the Rosemary District and the Boatyard Boardwalk Shops.
We went back to the Star Fish Company in Cortez, which deserves all the accolades it gets, plus some — excellent fresh fish in a low-key setting. The Peel & Eat Gulf Coast shrimp are fantastic (we don’t really eat the shrimp they serve up in New York, so this was a treat — not trying to be snobby, just that shrimp flown in from elsewhere usually sucks — at the same time, it was really depressing to see the local Publix sell those shitty Thai shrimp rings — yuck), as are the mullet and grouper (can’t remember which is which, but I think the first is the grouper and the second is the mullet):
