Today, Saturday, we slept late and ate a banana only breakfast. Our first order of business was to find a pharmacy to have prescriptions filled from last night. A Publix was located and we soon had the prescriptions filled and returned to the motorhome with the medicines. We left again to head to Fort Myers Sand Sculpture Championship festival on the beach. We found ourselves in a long line of traffic headed the same direction and decided maybe not today. Our sister-in-law had told us about a place in the area called Six Mile Cypress Preserve. So we turned around and headed in that direction. We stopped at a Bahama Breeze restaurant for lunch which we enjoyed eating on the restaurant patio. We did then go to the Preserve which was a really nice afternoon. The Slough is a wetland preserve of over 3500 acres. A variety of plants and animals are protected here. A very nice 1.2 mile boardwalk allows visitors to walk through the preserve. It was a beautiful afternoon for doing this as the temperature did not reach 80 degrees. In the pond areas we saw an alligator and numerous turtles. Cypress trees, ferns, some palms and airplants were in the vegetation areas. This is a county facility and the only charge was for parking $1.00 per hour or $5.00 for the day. An interpretive center with a small gift shop is also located on the grounds.
