Today we got up reallly early to drive the 2 hours to Clearwater on the advice of a waitress in Ponderosa who said that it was the best beach- it's on the gulf of mexico so it's always really sunny with nice clear waters etc etc
We made 3 very silly mistakes:
1) Stopping 30 minutes into the drive to get breakfast at a denny's off the highway- the queue was insane becuse it was full of families trying to get to Disney world for 10am. Thanfully we were going away from Disney world so the traffic wasn't totally crazy for that section of the journey
2) Forgetting that "spring break" started on Monday and everyone who was too old for dinsey world would be hitting a beach. The traffic into clearwater was awful.
3) applying suncream at 8am and not reapplying it. I have the most amazing moustache and monobrow of sunburn.. I guess I didn't apply sunblock to those areas then...
The beach was amazing-the water was very clear and the sand was very white like you see in travel catalogues.
it was also roasting hot!
We sunbathed and had a paddle in the sea, thn traff ad I walked the length of the beach to walk out on the pier- and we saw pelicans! Loads of them roosting on all the buoys and signs. the views were impressive too- Florida is an odd looking place!
Once we were all sunburned to hell, we drove back to Orlando, packed all our stuff up and tride to placate our sunburn a bit.
We went back to chuys for our last meal- the food there really is lush!
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