Chugwhump
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Yesterday I had to go into Miami and work for a few hours.
I took my 10 year old son along for the ride.
He grabbed his Nintendo DS, a book, some Capri Suns, and we both brought swim trunks (Why are they called "trunks").
We got outta' work around 2 pm and headed for the Rickenbacker Causeway.
We made the first right after getting on the Causeway and splashed around a bit with the natives. A reminder....not everyone should wear a bikini....much less a thong!
If only they would post that on signs in English, Spanish, French, and German along south Florida's beaches.
We saw mostly nice families and a crapload of wind surfers.
We took a trash bag and picked up all the junk we could in 30 minutes or so
(I was taught by my parents to always leave the place cleaner than you found it, my kids got the same lesson).
We then loaded up and continued towards Crandon Key. I pointed out the old Miami Marine Stadium (Jimmy Buffett, Hank Junior...oh.. the memories) to the left, the Seaquarium to the right, and wonder what ever happened to Planet Ocean. We then made the left turn just after Mast Academy and headed for JIMBO's!
At the gate to the Virginia Key park we had to pay the five bucks even though I uttered the secret passcode "We are going to Jimbo's". The guy at the gatehouse clearly thinks I am a bad parent and still charged me the $5.
We stopped off at the beach on the right, picked up more trash (lots of trash sadly) and saw puffer fish, cow fish, a skate, and lots of little crabs.
We then got hungry and headed in.
Jimbo was not in residence when we were there yesterday.
It would also appear that they will not give them back electricity, so a generator was running inside the shrimp shack. My son had never seen Bocce Ball before so we watched that for a bit, saw a manatee out at the boats just hanging around, and he found some cool pieces of glass from a mosaic of some kind at the waters edge in the dirt.
He got a Sprite, I got a Silver Bullet, and we bought a couple hot dogs.
I bought the wife a pound of smoked fish, very good may I add, took some pictures and picked up some trash.
I will say I think you need to get there earlier if you bing kids, as some of the patrons were a little more gone than I would have liked so early in the day.
I got my gate receipt stamped with the word JIMBO's on the back and headed to the gate to get my $5 back!!
We loaded up, went towards Bill Baggs State Park, and as it was 4:30 chose not to spend $8 for a one hour visit and u-turned towards the beach next to Paradise Divers at the marina. I know nothing about paradise Divers...does anyone have opinions?
We then went to the beach (JACKPOT).
There were two very nice Venezuelan ladies there laying on the sand wearing only the bottom half of their bikinis which was a no-no as the beach was was closed. I somehow genuinely missed the sign (no clue why).
I am told they just replaced a bunch of Turtle Grass and cleaned up the scrapes the idiots with their water bikes/wave runners have left all over the place, and we found urchins and sea squirts.
My son also spent time looking at the boats coming back in to the marina, I mostly looked for Bikinis and had a nice conversation with a heavily accented Cuban Grandfather with his two year old grandson. He might have been the proudest father I met that day as his son is a Naval Academy graduate and a chopper pilot in the United States Marine Corps. He wants us all to know how thankful he is to live in freedom in the USA, and he thinks President Obama is a "Communista".
My son and I then loaded up and he fell asleep for the ride home to Coconut Creek, and upon arriving home, he grabbed his skateboard and transformed himself into a skate rat before my very eyes, I gave my wife the smoked fish from Jimbo's Place, got a kiss in return and I took a shower.
It was a good day.
Chug
Is glad to live in the USA.
I took my 10 year old son along for the ride.
He grabbed his Nintendo DS, a book, some Capri Suns, and we both brought swim trunks (Why are they called "trunks").
We got outta' work around 2 pm and headed for the Rickenbacker Causeway.
We made the first right after getting on the Causeway and splashed around a bit with the natives. A reminder....not everyone should wear a bikini....much less a thong!
If only they would post that on signs in English, Spanish, French, and German along south Florida's beaches.
We saw mostly nice families and a crapload of wind surfers.
We took a trash bag and picked up all the junk we could in 30 minutes or so
(I was taught by my parents to always leave the place cleaner than you found it, my kids got the same lesson).
We then loaded up and continued towards Crandon Key. I pointed out the old Miami Marine Stadium (Jimmy Buffett, Hank Junior...oh.. the memories) to the left, the Seaquarium to the right, and wonder what ever happened to Planet Ocean. We then made the left turn just after Mast Academy and headed for JIMBO's!
At the gate to the Virginia Key park we had to pay the five bucks even though I uttered the secret passcode "We are going to Jimbo's". The guy at the gatehouse clearly thinks I am a bad parent and still charged me the $5.
We stopped off at the beach on the right, picked up more trash (lots of trash sadly) and saw puffer fish, cow fish, a skate, and lots of little crabs.
We then got hungry and headed in.
Jimbo was not in residence when we were there yesterday.
It would also appear that they will not give them back electricity, so a generator was running inside the shrimp shack. My son had never seen Bocce Ball before so we watched that for a bit, saw a manatee out at the boats just hanging around, and he found some cool pieces of glass from a mosaic of some kind at the waters edge in the dirt.
He got a Sprite, I got a Silver Bullet, and we bought a couple hot dogs.
I bought the wife a pound of smoked fish, very good may I add, took some pictures and picked up some trash.
I will say I think you need to get there earlier if you bing kids, as some of the patrons were a little more gone than I would have liked so early in the day.
I got my gate receipt stamped with the word JIMBO's on the back and headed to the gate to get my $5 back!!
We loaded up, went towards Bill Baggs State Park, and as it was 4:30 chose not to spend $8 for a one hour visit and u-turned towards the beach next to Paradise Divers at the marina. I know nothing about paradise Divers...does anyone have opinions?
We then went to the beach (JACKPOT).
There were two very nice Venezuelan ladies there laying on the sand wearing only the bottom half of their bikinis which was a no-no as the beach was was closed. I somehow genuinely missed the sign (no clue why).
I am told they just replaced a bunch of Turtle Grass and cleaned up the scrapes the idiots with their water bikes/wave runners have left all over the place, and we found urchins and sea squirts.
My son also spent time looking at the boats coming back in to the marina, I mostly looked for Bikinis and had a nice conversation with a heavily accented Cuban Grandfather with his two year old grandson. He might have been the proudest father I met that day as his son is a Naval Academy graduate and a chopper pilot in the United States Marine Corps. He wants us all to know how thankful he is to live in freedom in the USA, and he thinks President Obama is a "Communista".
My son and I then loaded up and he fell asleep for the ride home to Coconut Creek, and upon arriving home, he grabbed his skateboard and transformed himself into a skate rat before my very eyes, I gave my wife the smoked fish from Jimbo's Place, got a kiss in return and I took a shower.
It was a good day.
Chug
Is glad to live in the USA.
