Feb 27, 2009 St. Petersburg Florida

Just 2 photos today as I have some important info to report. Very unusual tree in one and the other is a public restroom. Why you ask. Well, the builder was involved in a dispute during the construction of a church, St Marys. He was quite upset and unable to get satisfaction through negotiation or the courts. He got his revenge by buying up a piece of property and building a smaller version of the church to be used as a public restroom. It became known as St Johns.

Now for the important issue. You may have noticed that I have been including clever slogans at the bottom of my blogs for the past few days. "Save the Crabs", "Don't eat the Crabs", "Crabs are bottom feeders" etc. The reason for this is that if you eat crabs, people will fish for crabs using crab pots. Crab pots are little cages that the crabs crawl into and can't get out of. The pots or cages sit on the bottom of the Gulf attached to a rope or line with a small buoy or float so that the crab killers can find their cages. There are literally thousands of crab pots in the Gulf. It makes it very difficult to navigate, you have to avoid the crab pots or you could get one tangled up in your props and then you are dead in the water. This could result in an expensive and dangerous tow and/or expensive repairs to props, shafts, struts etc. Crab pots are not good. You may think that I want you to stop eating crabs just to make it easier to go boating. Wrong, I am a friend of the crabs. Most people don't care about crabs because they are ugly. Not me, I care about the crabs. If crabs were as cute as baby seals, there would be a huge outcry against crab pots, but oh no, crabs are not cute and nobody cares. Well that is all about to change. I have been in touch with Pamela Anderson and she and I are going to launch a major campaign to "Save the Crabs". Get on board now, you don't want to be on the wrong side of this one.