We went down to Ft. Matanzas Nat. park, you take a float over to this tiny fort in the middle of the river. Read more about the site by following the link, it will do a much better job than my cr@ppy grammar.
The place is crawling with HUGE Golden Orb spiders (typical web spans 5feet!) these suckers were some of the biggest orb spiders I've seen in long time. This particular one was not that big but you can see her web. Female Golden Orbs are roughly 25mm (leg span of a avg. human hand) and like to create their webs at face height from the ground - [shivers] but they do not bite or sting.
The boys tucking under the webs, poor nick was catching all the webs.
Saturday night Joe & I went out to Caps on the Water, a very tasty seafood restaurant down the street from the house. We had a shrimp pastry appetizer, oh my gosh it was good. I do not even know what exactly it was, joe ordered it - good job. It was a puff pastry filled with saute shrimps with boursin cheese or something.
Here joe and his dinner of pan-seared Tuna filet on a black bean cake. I had the St. augustine shrimp (fried shrimp) that was sooo yummmy. My sides were plantains & miso cucumber slaw (cuks, red pepper strips, carrots strips), the slaw dressing was perfect for dipping the shrimp. I'm not a cocktail/tartar sauce person, give me some other dip or just plain lemon & horseradish.
This is the cool thing about the beach up here in north FL, its all shell. The boys couldn't make a sandcastles like they do in St. Pete.
Surfer boy Henry, he took to boogie boarding like he's been doing it for years. The surf is perfect, low long sets that just roll in along the shallow beach.
Heading out to the fort, about a 5 minute ride on a pontoon boat.
Nico decided that he was not going up to the top of the fort - half way up. The opening is about 30inches by 24inches wide & straight up.
Henry heading back down, the wall around the top was about 4feet high. We had to wait about 10mins while person after person headed up to the top.
Guard station on first landing.
Joe pointing out big spiders as we head down the natural trail on the mainland.
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