Feb 2 - fogged

It was supposed to be a very warm day.  It was, but not on the coast.  I wasn't riding long before donning my wind vest.  I wished that I had my arm warmers but figured that my rain jacket would be too hot.  By the time I got close to Flagler Beach I was roasting in the sun but once I crossed the causeway to Beachside, I was fogged in again.  It stayed that way all the way south to Port Orange, cool and foggy, but warmed up as I crossed over to the mainland and rode south to New Smyrna Beach.

I guess that the warm air on an east wind over the cold water produced the fog.  Inland it was a great day ... it would have been a good day for Disney or something but not on the beach.  Westbound traffic was heavy on Dunlawton and International Speedway Blvd heading away from the beach.  Perhaps the bad weather send the Orlando residents home early or perhaps Superbowl parties sparked the exodus, who knows.

We had shrimp for dinner, picked up the day before by Sandy.  We'd had triggerfish the day before, always a treat.  Many of the smaller fish, like snapper or flounder and even pompano, are soft-fleshed, not muscular like more aggressive fish.  The truly aggressive, like grouper, we don't eat due to the high mercury content.  I suppose that small groupers are not as bad but it's hard to know.  Shrimp, flounder etc. are lower on the food chain.

That's about it for a quiet Sunday.  We broke with tradition (?) and didn't go to the Tiki.  I looked over and saw that Rose was closing up early due to lack of customers.  The Superbowl Blues had hit the Tiki.

Onward !