Trip to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium

Today's weather was a breezy 59 degrees - very Christmas wintery for us here in Florida - but not a good beach day so we met at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, a rehabilitation facility on the gulf.

We saw some nursing sharks

Lots of beautiful, colorful fish

Stingrays...

...that we got to touch

Dolphins

including Winter the dolphin who lost her tail...

...and gained a prosthesis one

All very educational and a great way to spend what we in Florida consider a cold day. Afterward, our group ate lunch at Frenchy's (the previous group ate before the aquarium) and we ended the day with some card playing.