Spring Break '08 - Part 2

Good Afternoon....Hump Day...Sunny - mid 80's - Tropical type breezes. Tori's Poolside again and I'm checking mail and surfin. You may be wondering why I'm web surfing rather than say in the pool? Well I have a head cold and this made the flight (s) down here (2 hr lay over in ATL there and back) the second worse flight of my life. No problems going up but when go to descend each time my ears will not 'pop' to allow the pressure to release and I go temp deaf to the point where I feel as if I'm wearing ear muffs or am underwater. And both times this gave me a really really painful headache. It feels as if the fluids in my brain are being swished around so this now makes me extremely nervous for the ride home. I don't want to get water in my ears plain and simple. I may get over this soon though...well see.

So this poor Sea Turtle took the bait of a fisherman that was fishing off of Naples Pier last night. We get there and walk all the way to the end and there is a couple of people kinda together looking down at the water....I was someone got something cool....and then we look over and there was the HUGE turtle w/ a fishing line going down his throat. After the shock came the sadness then came anger...the young fisherman looked worried and confused and then did basically the only thing he could do....started walking and pulling the turtle with him to the shore...which was very very far away. I was lets go..I didn't want to see the thing die of exhaustion. We walked back to the car to grab the camera and noticed out parking ticket...tori tried to bs her way out of it but it didn't work....by the time we got back to the pier the fisherman was at the break and Tori got some pics. These are taken from up above....the fisherman is up next to us and the guy touching the turtle was a surfer....the fisherman tossed down a pain of pliers and then another surfer/fisherman/blond dude cut the line at the mouth...I don't believe he could get the hook out but this seemed to work and then the surfer gently pushed the sea turtle back into the waves where he disappeared rather quickly into the water. I tell ya you couldn't make this up if you tried. Very exciting and emotional. Very pleased to see the thing make it back out....will hope he makes it. Biggest turtle I've ever seen in my life. Crazy.This was before dinner last night....we at outside on 5th ave and I had Sushi....Ahi tuna again....I'm a fan. And I really like sushi....I'm getting hungry. Tori had a beef/artichoke over noodles meal that was really good too.

This morn we did a walk/jog down by the beach area...on the road thou...I didn't want to jog on the beach...felt good but I'm a little tired now and hungry. A little more web then, eat and relax...we're going on a boat tour dinner cruise thing tonight I think.

Cya