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Spent Labor Day weekend (and my parents’  anniversary) on Tierra Verde. Thomas chopped down a bunch of bananas: 

Alex appropriated the bananas:

Then back to Thomas’ favorite pastime – fishing – here he demonstrates his catch & release technique with a just-a-little-but-too-small grouper:

Happy 51st Anniversary, Dad & Mom:

One of my favorite deucers, Glen, sends chilly greetings from Alaska:  

And word to the wise care of Bill Bagg’s State Park, as if you hadn’t noticed:

Thomas, Alex and I headed over to the Miami Beach Marina this morning to board the Won Reward from the Reward Fishing Fleet:

Hot and sunny, perfect weather for bananafishing:

Alex caught the first fish and the biggest fish- a king fish:

Three hours later, Sherman (not the toilet paper, the tank) expertly fileted the fish:

We took the filets to Monty’s and they grilled them up for the freshest lunch:

Another day in paradise.

The life and the rules are much different on the west side of the state. No free for all over there.

Lucy was over the twenty-five pound weight limit, for the island, so we had to disguise her as the elderly maiden aunt in the back seat (a la little red riding hood) :

Alex & Thomas spent the day fishing off the seawall and the dock, content in their huckleberry finn-like day.

The just-a-bit-cooler-than-here weather was perfect:

Simple pleasures.