Just got back from a weekend of kayak camping on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico (Durney Key, if that means anything to you FLA). The sunset last night was spectacular and I wish there was a way to share it with you all here, but you can only link to an image already on the web so that doesn't do me much good. If any of you have seen the picture on the cover of Stephen King's Under the Dome, it was that same shade of eerie purplish red, punctuated by thunderheads in the distance. I think back to the time before prescription drugs and hardcore alcohol abuse when I used to do stuff like this all the time and I try to ask myself how did I ever come to prefer substance abuse over this. I don't have an answer but I don't think I necessarily need to answer that question. On the way home I had to stop in Tarpon Springs just down the road, a quaint, touristy place that was once an enclave of Greek immigrants who worked in the sponge diving industry. Had a fabulous meal of that cheese that explodes (never can remember the name but recognize it when I see it on a menu), fried squid and baklava.