{"id":1641,"date":"2017-10-15T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=1641"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:28:23","slug":"walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart, breakfast on Fort Matanzas Beach, Melbourne to visit friends, and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left our second Walmart fairly early in the day, facing a relatively long ride home. Our first stop was a near-sunrise visit to the beach near Fort Matanzas National Monument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170917_beach_across_from_Fort_Matanzas-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1682\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170917_beach_across_from_Fort_Matanzas-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170917_beach_across_from_Fort_Matanzas-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170917_beach_across_from_Fort_Matanzas-2-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170917_beach_across_from_Fort_Matanzas-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> With two weeks practice, we were able to maneuver the Motorhome Monster (size, not quality), into a parking space intended for a compact car.<\/p>\n<p>The view from our motorhome was impressive.\u00a0 Lots of colors in the sunrise caused by the recent storms. Much of the beach was washed away leaving\u00a0just enough to walk on. We enjoyed the walk, enjoyed the excellent breakfast with fresh grapefruit juice courtesy of the &#8220;Camp Walmart Store,&#8221; and were glad to be\u00a0\u00a0 back on the road to visit our friends in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1671 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jean-and-Gary-from-their-website-4.2014.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We met up with our good friends, back from the days when Stu owned a Gemini Sailboat, and enjoyed a lovely lunch with them at Shells.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1641 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home\/screen-shot-2017-10-16-at-9-02-46-pm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-16-at-9.02.46-PM.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home\/gary_and_jean_glenn_december_24_2015\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gary_and_Jean_Glenn_December_24_2015-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gary_and_Jean_Glenn_December_24_2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gary_and_Jean_Glenn_December_24_2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gary_and_Jean_Glenn_December_24_2015.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We loved our RV trip and can&#8217;t wait to rent another for our next RV adventure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left our second Walmart fairly early in the day, facing a relatively long ride home. Our first stop was a near-sunrise visit to the beach near Fort Matanzas National Monument. With two weeks practice, we were able to maneuver the Motorhome Monster (size, not quality), into a parking space intended for a compact car. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/walmart-breakfast-on-fort-matanzas-beach-melbourne-to-visit-friends-and-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walmart, breakfast on Fort Matanzas Beach, Melbourne to visit friends, and Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1683,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1641","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1641\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}