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Then I went back to take some pictures around the pool. There’s a gate to the pool near the beach access. It has a card-reader so you always had to have your room key with you and accessible, which was kind of a pain, since we always seemed to arrive here with our hands full (towels, mugs, etc.). Plus, during the day this gate doesn’t stay shut for more than 30 seconds at a stretch with so many people going in and out, so it seemed kind of silly. But at least you could piggy-back behind someone else sometimes and not have to use your own key.
Here’s the pool table. I guess I did take a picture of it after all.
On the other side of the pool are some places to note. Just beyond the cast member along the left of this picture, in the building with the cupola-thing, is Eb and Flo’s. That’s where you get towels, register for activities, and rent or borrow equipment. Toward the middle of the picture, are the restrooms and sauna. Further right, hidden behind the palm trees is the entrance to the exercise room (down a hallway and on the far-side of the building) and the Community Hall. Community Hall is where the windows are that you can see beyond the umbrellas.
This picture is looking a little further right, and includes the far end of the Inn building. “Bleachers” is the quick-service food place and you can see it beyond the umbrellas, but closed at this early hour. The mug refill station is actually on the porch that you can see in this picture, but at the end, on the wall nearest Bleachers. It’s closed behind those cabinet doors.
The pool and slide.
I went back out through the pool gate and took a picture of the walk to the beach access. The Green Cabin is at the end of this walkway on the left, and the ramp down to the beach is to the right. The pole just at the end of the walkway, to the left, is a shower to wash sand off of yourself.
Another shot of the ocean-side of the Inn. The restaurant “Shutters” is behind these windows closest to me.
Entering the Inn from the ocean-side. The doors straight across are where we entered when we checked-in. The gift shop is the “Island Grove Packing Company” in the far-corner, left side of this picture. I’ll have some pictures of items available for sale there in a future chapter.
Looking right, towards the front desk.
And looking left. Down the hallway, beyond the sea turtle, is Shutters. Also, just over the sea turtle down that hallway are the coffee urns. But I didn’t notice them. I got the impression from the cast member in the gift shop the previous day that the coffee would be near the gift shop. Oh well. I had Starbucks’ Via coffee when I got back to the suite instead.
“Tia” the turtle.
I moved forward a little more and took a picture of the front desk.
These orange grove signs decorated much of the walls. This is just a sampling.
I went closer toward the front door to take a picture of the lobby area. The darkened room on the second floor is the Green Cabin Room, which is a lounge.
I moved over toward the front desk and took a picture of the opposite wall. You can see more of the orange grove sign pictures on the walls.
A nice sea turtle painting. Although we learned that they will turn around if they come onto the beach to nest and see another turtle, so I don’t think you’d ever see three of them like this.
From there, I went out the front door of the Inn, and I would have taken pictures of the front entrance, but it had started raining pretty hard. Gee, it didn’t look like it was going to rain.
So, I hid my camera from the rain under my shirt and rain back to the suite.
Sometime while I was gone, Judy
had taken her own picture of the ocean from the balcony, on her cell phone.
Anyway, now that I had gotten back, my procrastination ploy was over and I didn’t have any excuse not to workout. We set up the DVD player on top of the TV cabinet and fired up the Insanity DVD’s. I’m not sure what our workout sounded like to the people in the suites beside or below us. They probably just thought we were having coffee on the verandah.
Up next: Fishing FUNdamentals
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