Today is my youngest daughter's birthday. I can't believe she's thirty years old! She always seemed like the perpetual teenager.
We spent most of the day getting acquainted with the area. Roy rode his bike around for a couple of hours, and I rode a bus to a nice new shopping center where there was a Publix market. Bought a few groceries and was lucky enough to just catch a return bus.
Riviera Beach is between West Palm Beach and North Palm Beach, but despite its ritzy name, it is not a high-class area. In fact, it's rather depressed, but the view of Lake Worth is beautiful.
The temperature went to 84 today, so after lunch we put on our swimsuits and paddled over to Peanut Island. Pulled up on the sand near the Coast Guard station and walked around a little. The water is 75 degrees! Sure felt good. The entire island is a park, so I was a little disappointed that there weren't any hiking trails, but we had fun anyway. Paddled completely around the island.
When we returned to the boat, we took showers. The showers here are excellent! Didn't even have to wait for the water to get hot.
A big old hotel was blown up at eleven this morning in downtown West Palm Beach. We had heard about it a couple of days ago and intended to go down to see it, but we totally forgot about it today, so we had to be satisfied with watching it on the news. That would have been quite a sight to see.
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