April 15-17, 2010 Last updated: 5/2/10 8:00pm PT
We traveled to Sanibel Island in Florida (off the coast of Ft. Myers) for the wedding of Scot and Peg.
Lunch at the Mucky Duck on Captiva Island. They have great BBQ shrimp, wrapped in bacon.
In the afternoon we walked the beach. The entire beach is made up of shells.
The wedding. It was very sunny.
The wedding was held at the Casa Ybel Resort. I escorted the bride’s mother. Scot escorted his mother. Peg’s sister was the maid-of-honor.
Don’t drop the rings!
Pictures on the beach.
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford wintered in Ft. Myers and their houses are now part of a museum. Edison bought the property on the Caloosahatchee River in 1885, and the family used it until 1947. Ford purchased his home (next to Edison’s) in 1916.
The Ford portion of the museum was pretty small.
Edison, Ford and Harvey Firestone planted a banyan tree in 1925, searching for a domestic source of natural rubber. This is the largest banyan tree in the continental US. Although it looks like many trees, it is really only one tree.
Edison had a lab on site. I can’t imagine it was this neat and organized when he was working here.
Edison was from the future. Not only did he invent the phonograph, he invented the juke box. This is a ‘multiphone’ from 1905-1908. The user would deposit a nickel and turn a crank to select one of 24 numbered 2-minute cylinders.
The kinetoscope from the 1890’s.
On Sanibel Island is the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Lots of birds and an occasional alligator.
Below are horseshoe crabs, a tree crab, and a bird of some kind.
This was a whopper of an alligator. It looks small because it was about 50 yards from the road (just a guess).
Best key lime pie, Gramma Dot’s on Sanibel Island. We went there twice (our usual endorsement).