It was hard to take, loads of sunshine, time with the wife at the Naples Bay Resort. Not too shabby where you can step onto your boat within feet of our bedroom suite with kitchen. (yes a bit pricey but we wanted luxury). Wow!

We rented this seven passenger pontoon boat at Rose Marine on Marco Island for the day ($300). All smiles we got our fishing license and headed to sea. We were restricted to shoreline areas and not open ocean but I was happy with that. I was the Captain you see.

My wife was gleeful as she tanned on the bow.

We caught some weird fish like this  2 foot bonnet head shark and released them. We thought they were young hammerheads until we were educated by locals.

But finally hit on a Pompano below with a bucktail hook and a small piece of shrimp on the hook.

You can see the sunshine on my smiling face and this keeper Pompano (must be 11 inches to the inside of the tail fork). This one was around 12.5 inches. Good fighting fish too!!

We dipped the fillets in egg and fish batter and fried them up in our resort kitchen. Sides of Tartar Sauce and Lime for garnish. A nice chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc made it spectacular. Wow!!

Later in the week we did an Airboat Ride in a Mangrove swamp with Captain Jack. down Hwy 41 to the Everglades. Spectacular!! Can you say fast!!

And some Alligators…

We did stop at a local resturant serving alligator and blue crab. The gator was fried and tasted like chicken with an ocean flavor. Nice! The crab serves as a crab cake did not do service to the crab.

While grocery shopping I found the fish was expensive to buy but found some lesser expensive grouper cheeks (small nuggets of grouper) an fried them up to top our pasta dinner with Parmesan cheese.

I like to cook as you can see. Fried Grouper Cheeks Marinara. Wow were they good!!

Coming back home all smiles and sunshine!

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