After a good night’s sleep we left the hotel and popped over the road for breakfast – there was loads of choice of pancakes, bacon, egg, mushrooms, sausage, toast, fruit and beverages. We filled up and then set out on our way to Florida which was around another four hour drive.

In the afternoon we started on the beers and had a bit of a sing song on the bus.

Once we got to Florida we spent a little bit of time exploring our accomodation, which is like a beach hut right by the water. Outside our hut is the intercostal waterway. Thos is a 3,000-mile inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas

We are in Fort Pierce, Florida on Hutchinson Island. Fort Pierce is named after the Fort Pierce Army Post that was built in 1838.

Some weird facts about Florida; it is illegal for a doctor to ask a patient if they own a gun, it is illegal to break more than 3 dishes a day and unmarried women are prohibited from parachuting on a Sunday.

After we had sorted put our rooms – I’m on the sofa in the lounge – we headed down to the beach. We went for a swim in the sea which was warm but quite rough.

After a while it started to rain but it was only a passing shower.

We went back home when we started to get a little cold, had showers and headed out to Sharky’s for dinner.

We watched the sunset before we headed out.

The food here was amazing. We shared some Mahi bites fir starters and I had buffalo shrimps and sweet potatoes fries with blue cheese sauce and mixed vegetables for main.

The Mahi mahi fish is known as the common dolphin fish and it was really meaty and tasty.

The moon was shining bright and you could see Jupiter to the right of it as well.

When we got back home we sat on the deck and chatted for a bit. There were a lot fish jumping in the water.

It was a lovely end to the evening.