Coconut Festival, Geopaddle, Fishing, and Cafe Pignoli

Is everyone getting excited for the holiday season? We are!

I am starting a new feature with my newsletter - a Pic O' the Month - scroll down to see it.

Now for some fun........

When we stayed at Marina Village last month, we heard about the Geopaddle, a scavenger hunt by kayak. I decided that sounded like fun, so Nicole and I went.

We rented a kayak there, were given a map, and had 2 hours to find clues that were on buoys in the river, which we had to hand in for a prize.

We found our clues in about half an hour and spent the rest of the time paddling around and exploring. We even paddled all the way to Rumrunners in Cape Harbour. Needless to say, we had sore arms the next day, but it was a lot of fun, and we hope to do it again next year.

We didn't win the big prize, a 2-night stay at the resort, but we got free gelato, which was delicious!

They had some of the best fireworks I have ever seen. The festival opens on a Friday in mid-November, and has local bands playing that night. Saturday night is rock night, and Sunday has country music in the afternoon.

This year Foghat took to the stage. They were opened by an AC/DC tribute band called Back in Black.

I have videos of both bands and of the rides on my YouTube channel. For other festivals in Cape Coral, go to the festivals page on my website.

They cook it up for you right there and while it's cooking, you can help yourself to Caesar salad, sausages, meatballs, and garlic bread ..... the meal is all-you-can-eat for the very reasonable price of $11.95.

We want to go back for Friday night BBQ, karaoke on Saturday night, and the Sunday Jazz Brunch. Motown music is performed on Wednesday nights.

We signed up and our task was to wave a sign about the event on a busy intersection to people driving by. It wasn't too bad, the hour went faster than we thought it would.... got a little sunburnt!

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We then went home and cooked up our own dinner. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving ..... love that turkey dinner!

I thought it was a lot of fun, I caught 4 fish: 2 ladyfish, a Spanish mackerel, and, believe it or not, a puffer fish!

Captain Gary from Venture Out was terrific, he showed us how to cast and reel, he's a really nice guy.

Next year we want to go further out, now that we got our feet wet ....... get it?!

For videos of each of us catching a fish, go to my YouTube channel.

New pages up this month are:

About Hurricanes

About Alligators

Homesteaders

Don't forget, you can also go to my blog to see updates to my website.

Speaking of websites, I built mine with SBI!, which stands for Site Build It!

If you are interested in building a website, SBI! is offering a Buy One Get One Free sale until midnight December 25th, 2010.

SBI! teaches you how to take an interest, passion, or hobby, and turn it into a profitable online business. The regular price for a website from SBI! is $300.

You may be wondering what to do with 2 websites. You can split the cost with someone else who wants to build a website, or you can keep both.

You have 9 months before you have to activate the second site, and then a year after that before you need to build it.

To find out more, go to:

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I just finished writing my ebook Weird Cape Coral. I am offering it at no cost to subscribers of Gator Bites.

I will sending an email with download instructions to those who subscribed before this month, so they can get a copy of the ebook.

And now, the Pic O' the Month, taken on Cape Coral Parkway:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

Tammy
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