English Athletes in the Great State of Florida

Yesterday it rained and stayed cold. Relatively cold. On a walk to the local park just before the deluge, I took this shot of the sky and the overhead wires. The high temp for the day was 57 degrees.



Today was nicer, but still not what one expects from the Florida heat gods. After a short bike ride (a little over 3 miles) to procure a newspaper this morning, Santini and I went to Oyster Creek Nature Sanctuary and walked around the path (about two miles) through the southern pine trees on top of the crushed sea shell covered trail. There was a dock next to the waterway so I photographed my hostess there.



While checking out Port Charlotte info on Wikipedia, I discovered that one of the famous residents of Port Charlotte is Wayne Rooney, the Manchester United soccer megastar. He apparently bought a lavish condo near the long bridge to Punta Gorda some years back for 320,000 pounds. Also, according to other internet sources, about 30 other English soccer players own places in the same complex. While the value of Rooney's condo has diminished considerably, he apparently still owns it. We are considering a trip to the condo complex, Harbor Pointe, to check out the digs and perhaps tour the grounds. I doubt that Wayne himself is around because there are MannU games scheduled for today and he likely is plying his trade. I wonder why he chose Port Charlotte as his American hideaway.

It's amazing what one can learn from Wikipedia.

We had homemade pizza and salad for dinner as we watched a very entertaining hockey game from Vancouver for the Olympic gold medal. Despite the Canadian team's win over the USA pros in overtime it was quite a good ending to a good day.