Saturday, January 7, 2012

Venice, FL - a quick visit

We three drove to Venice this afternoon.

We really just guessed, so far as where to go, but Venice Avenue took us 'down town'.

And a very friendly lady in a tourist kiosk helped us with a map, info about an art fair in March, a bicycling route out of Venice and where to rent bikes, and a dog beach (almost all beaches prohibit animals that won't pick up after themselves.  Of course the bipeds they do permit don't do a great job of picking up after themselves either, but that's another story.)

So we drove to the dog park, took Jack through the fenced dog-lock into the scoop water and wash area, and through a second dog-lock onto the beach.  He had fun.  When we got braver, we let him off his leash, and he ran and played with a couple of dogs.  No surprise, he was less aggressive off-leash than on.  He and I went into the water, he got almost as wet as I (I was in walking shorts, not swim trunks, so I didn't dive in.)  The water was cool, but I've willingly gone swimming in colder water.  We will certainly go back.

Then we drove around a bit, discovered another park (again no animals).  And then came 'home' to Englewood.  We're going out to supper tonight.

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