Monday, April 25, 2022. Casperson Beach and The Perpon Residence Air BnB
We disconnected the RV from its umbilicals at Craig and Melody’s, bidding them a grateful farewell for hosting us in our RV so graciously. We headed south to Casperson Beach and found a nice free parking spot in the shade. We got into swim suits and unpacked our floating sifting screens and beach scoop/rake and beach chairs.
We set up on the beach and spent a couple of hours sifting for fossilized sharks teeth. Jason had mentioned that the lack of rain or storms might lead to slim pickings but it’s still a fun outing. The surf was pretty significant, jostling us around quite a bit and threatening to topple us over if we weren’t really careful with our footing, or wandered too deep. We did manage to find some small fossilized sharks teeth though. We probably ended up finding more than we had the last time were were on this beach with our former neighbors the Stanfords several years ago when we had also visited Wayne and the Manatee viewing platforms, but a little earlier in the year (February).
Jack and Sharon joined us on the beach for about an hour, and then it was time for lunch and time to head on down to Naples to get set up for our Tarpon fishing charters. We had lunch in the RV in the parking lot.
We stopped for diesel and also at Costco to air all the tires up to 70psi warm before meeting Jack and Sharon at the Air B&B house in Naples. The house is a large 3 bedroom tract home with granite counter tops, a huge great room, but surprisingly, no dishwasher.
There was a small washer and dryer so we were able to get a load of laundry done. When Jack and Sharon arrived earlier, the ice and water dispensers in the refrigerator didn’t work, and the TV also didn’t work. The wifi was also down. Ben eventually determined the Roku remote had dead batteries and the LG TV’s remote couldn’t control the Roku which was the main TV interface. Jack and Dave ended up watching YouTube videos on catching Tarpon once we got the TV figured out. We went to a local Mexican restaurant (Amigos) for dinner, which was expensive and generally forgettable fare. We also stopped at Walmart to get groceries to stock the Air B&B refrigerator with provisions so we could pack up breakfasts and lunches for the fishing trip. We met Dave and Bonnie, Jack’s friends who had taken Jack’s log building class and have two cabins in WA and a house in Melbourne FL. When we had returned from dinner, the host had fixed the refrigerator water and ice dispenser.
We discovered that the only electrical outlet in the garage was on a 15A circuit, which wasn’t enough to run our air conditioner (20A is more usual), so we will take the 3rd bedroom instead of sleeping in the RV.
