Saturday in Venice

All that nice weather we have been having was about to come to an end.  We decided to get  pickleball and all the other things we wanted to do done early.  Like most of our other days, today began with pickleball.  Ken was ready to play.

We played 8 games switching up players every couple of games.  And you know what?  It's just as much fun (actually more fun) playing pickleball now as it was when we first began playing.  Someone just needs to convince our bodies how much fun we are having!

Around 10:30, we quit playing pickleball and drove over to Venice for their Saturday farmer's market...

and to Upper Crust Bakery for their yummy,

delicious scones.

After eating every morsel of our scones, we got back in the car and headed for Maxine Barrett Park...

We did not know it, but the REV3 Triathalon was taking place this weekend.

We walked through the vendor booths of the triathalon and over to Sharky's...

which is a restaurant and fishing pier.

From the pier, you can look back and see Sharky's restaurant...

...and the people enjoying the beach on this nice Saturday afternoon.

This white egret posed for pictures but refused to eat some fresh shrimp that someone had left for him.  I guess he was a picky eater.

As we walked out to the end of the pier,

we stopped occasionally to watch the swimmers practicing for the Sunday's triathalon.  It is just about as difficult to take a picture of a person swimming as it is a dolphin. I was able to get an arm here or there...

or an occasional foot,

but I was unable to get a full-body picture of any of the swimmers.  These were the best I got:

It is amazing to think these men and women swim, bike and run as much as a total of 70 miles in a triathalon. After watching the swimmers for a few minutes,

we headed back down the pier and then back out to the park.

From the park, we could see the pier,

but we also saw lots of birds.

And we also saw the finish line for tomorrow's race.

After leaving the park, we headed back to the campground for lunch and to begin taking some things down since both of us would be leaving on Monday.  We got back together around 2:15 and walked down to the office to borrow the equipment for putt-putt golf.  We only played nine holes with Chuck emerging as the winner and then it started raining.

We went back to our campers, the guys took naps, while Bonnie and I worked on our respective blogs.  Bonnie and Ken came over for games around 7:15.  The guys won SkipBo but the girls won both games of Pinochle and the best 3 out of 4 games of Sequence Dice.

A-nother best day!