15: the leaf remains, drying out, surfer on a bike, mailboxes, serve yourself, jim/carrie, jon and carolyn
Sebastian Inlet State Park to Indialantic
The first thing I noticed when I climbed out of my tent wasn't that everything was wet. It was that the leaf was still attached to the spider's string, and still bouncing around. I couldn't believe it made it through the storm intact.
what the tent looked like the next morning after I cleared everything out... I slept like a baby
Glancing over my left shoulder I could see Sebastian Inlet State Park where I spent an eventful night. The center of the picture is where I watched the dolphins. They breached on the right edge of the picture. The white-topped building is the Ranger Station and entrance to the park.
Carrie Rossetter was also born and lived here in Melbourne. Her father was an Agent for the Standard Oil Company and when he died she made up her mind that she wanted to take over his job. However, in 1921 it was a lot harder for women to make it in the workplace so when she went to the Standard Oil Board of Directors meeting and pled her case.
Afterwards, listening through the keyhole, she heard one of the members state, "Let the little lady have it! She won’t last a year and we’ll give it to a man!” She did last the year and was thus the first woman Agent in the country, then another sixty one years after that, becoming one of the most successful Agents in the country. Standard Oil, of course, became Chevron.
I arrived in Indialantic (not Indiatlantic) stay with my friends Jon (with whom I used to work) and Carolyn. We visited for a while as my tent finished drying out.
Setting the tent up to dry (remember this picture)...
