{"id":252,"date":"2010-03-02T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2010-03-02T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:13:20","slug":"florida_gulf_coast_november_6-11_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/florida_gulf_coast_november_6-11_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gulf Coast, November 6-11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip to Longboat Key, Florida at the beginning of November . . .<\/p>\n<p>They were selling Yankees gear in the JetBlue terminal at JFK on the morning of November 6:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/jfk\/terminal5\/1711-06-09.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees World Series Merchandise For Sale, Terminal 5, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York, Queens, New York, November 6, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, flying over a thoroughly dejected city of Philadelphia:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/centercity\/centercity\/1211-06-09.jpg\" alt=\"Center City Philadelphia From Airplane, Philadelphia, Pennsyvlania, November 6, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/index.htm\">The beach at Longboat Key<\/a>. I think this is a Great Blue Heron:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/0211-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 8, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/3111-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 8, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this great vestigial ranch house sitting abandoned among the resorts along the beach:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/3811-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 8, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/4211-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 8, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-08-09\/4911-08-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 8, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-09-09\/index.htm\">Hurricane Ida kicked up relatively big waves on the 9th of November<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/beach\/11-09-09\/0111-09-09.jpg\" alt=\"Longboat Key Beach, Longboat Key, Florida, November 9, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stayed, as usual, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/fourwindsbeachresort\/index.htm\">Four Winds Beach Resort<\/a>. Here are pictures of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/longboatkey\/stmarystarofthesea\/index.htm\">St. Mary Star of the Sea Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Sarasota, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/sarasota\/centralavenue\/index.htm\">Central Avenue in the Rosemary District<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/sarasota\/boatyardboardwalkshops\/index.htm\">Boatyard Boardwalk Shops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We went back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/cortez\/starfishcompany\/index.htm\">Star Fish Company<\/a> in Cortez, which deserves all the accolades it gets, plus some &#8212; excellent fresh fish in a low-key setting. The Peel &#038; Eat Gulf Coast shrimp are fantastic (we don&#8217;t really eat the shrimp they serve up in New York, so this was a treat &#8212; not trying to be snobby, just that shrimp flown in from elsewhere usually sucks &#8212; at the same time, it was really depressing to see the local Publix sell those shitty Thai shrimp rings &#8212; yuck), as are the mullet and grouper (can&#8217;t remember which is which, but I think the first is the grouper and the second is the mullet):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/cortez\/starfishcompany\/2911-09-09.jpg\" alt=\"Peel and Eat Shrimp, Star Fish Company, 12306 46th Avenue West, Cortez, Florida, November 9, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/cortez\/starfishcompany\/3011-09-09.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Dinner, Star Fish Company, 12306 46th Avenue West, Cortez, Florida, November 9, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/florida\/cortez\/starfishcompany\/3111-09-09.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Dinner, Star Fish Company, 12306 46th Avenue West, Cortez, Florida, November 9, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip to Longboat Key, Florida at the beginning of November . . . They were selling Yankees gear in the JetBlue terminal at JFK on the morning of November 6: Meanwhile, flying over a thoroughly dejected city of Philadelphia: The beach at Longboat Key. I think this is a Great Blue Heron: There&#8217;s this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}