In Florida visiting me mammy in Naples. I try to start each day with a six- mile beach walk from the pier south to the Gordon River. Today I brought my cell phone and took some pictures. If this is destined to be the summer of oil on the beach, here’s what it looked like before the slick arrived.

7:30 am: setting out

Two miles south of the pier

A crab

Turtle nest about to hatch

Dolphins Playing in the wake of a boat entering the gulf from the Gordon River.

Birds on the hoof

And on the wing

A pair of snook patrolling the beach.

Sorry it’s a bit of a botch but it’s time to get back outside and play.