Southwest Daily Images
A snowbird shows photos from southwest Florida (Naples) and southwest Connecticut (Ridgefield) and New England and other places he goes.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Buffalo Chips Restaurant
I have driven past Buffalo Chips Restaurant on Old Route 41 in Bonita Springs many times. The mural on one side of the building is what usually caught my eye. But, I recently read a very positive review of the food, particularly the chicken wings. It was time to go inside.
Sally is one of the owners, a niece of the man who founded the restaurant 41 years ago. He is from Buffalo and is known as the "King of Wings." Sally showed me around.
A football jersey signed by retired Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly is a prized possession.
As is a robe from Muhammad Ali. "The Greatest."
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
1928 Ford Model A
The garage showed a gleaming mint condition 1928 Ford Model A. It was probably not as beautiful when it left the factory floor. Nor as expensive.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Cobra Kit Car
I had an itty bitty car repair that had to be done. (A brake light.)
While I was there, I got to admire a pretty cool Cobra kit car sitting on the dealer's floor.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Celebration Park
Celebration Park is a popular food truck venue southeast of downtown Naples.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Little Gators
Our Everglades (airboat) and Big Cypress (swamp buggy) tours were operated by Wooten's, Wooten's is the successor to tours run by Seminoles in the Everglades. The Wooten family took them over in 1953.
Wooten's offers guests an opportunity to hold either a two pound or a fifteen pound alligator. Bands keep the gators' mouths closed. I would have loved to hold a gator, but my hands were full.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The Everglades and Big Cypress
While Susie and her family were here, we went for tours of Everglades National Park and the adjoining Big Cypress National Preserve.
Mangroves are usually found near the coast, but they have been driven further inland by hurricanes.
Historically, the Everglades are fields of grass.
A red-shouldered hawk kept an eye on the tourists.