Showing posts with label sunday drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunday drive. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2015

A Sunday drive

which involved the RV ending up in Fort Desoto.
A county park that is near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
It is a gem of a park for campers and there are some
lovely spots on the water.
It's a wonderful getaway even if you live only an hour an half away.
We took some time after doing a driveby on the campsites to check out 
the beaches and piers.
There were a bunch of fishermen on the pier along with 
 this sly and crafty dolphin stalking their bait.
It was a tense situation.
However, both the fishermen and dolphin won.
 Then there is this poser.
He was on a rooftop of a pavilion on the pier.
 And seriously all he kept doing was nipping at this feathers,
and as a photographer it proved to be absolutely annoying.
He finally decided to man up and quit digging at the bugs and pose.
 And pose he did. 
If only the photographer got her settings right.
Not even photoshop could help. 
 But me and the blue heron were totally cool with it.

 And what's a pier without pelicans.
They were stalking the water, that had fisherman throwing
bait about - bringing forth fish.
Thus the patrol.
 Egmont Key and Lighthouse were directly across.
Sadly I totally sucked at the settings and the photos will be
languishing in my computer because they are seriously bad.
 We stopped to admire the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and drink some wonderful coffee
 - and I did take a few pictures because the light changed and it allowed
for the beautiful golden spans to be hightlighted.
As I said Fort Desoto is a gem for campers.
It has a pier for fishing and a couple of beaches with
pavillions and playgrounds for fun and frolic and food
and because its a county and/or state park - its totally affordable.
For a campsite on the water - depending on the time
of year it can be $50 a night or less.
If you want it spend the day at their lovely beaches with pavillions and piers
its only $5.00 per car. 
Where we were parked we had this lovely view of the bridge and
there were only 3 families on the beach.
A gem.
Gossip around the water cooler.
:)

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Boca Grande field trip - Sunday drive

Got a page going on - didn't have time to
glue it all down.
So for your viewing pleasure.......

Going to date myself here but do you remember
Sunday drives as a kid?
Hated them - then.
Love them - now.
And everyone should start doing them again.
 Boca Grande is a great place to hang - there is a 
lovely beach but you have to watch out for the currents.
 Got a couple of posers hanging out - eagle eyed bird guarding the lighthouse
and the BIL, SIL came along for the ride.
Nothing better than family.
 Inside the far structure is a museum chockful of stuff,
but naturally the item that caught my eye was
a scrapbook of the history of Boca Grande.
It is beautiful and well documented and chockful of amazing photos
and information.
 Boca Grande was noted for housing the Calusa Indians and their fishing villages,
the discovery and mining of phosphate that was barged down to the inlet
for world wide shipment. The tarpon fishing is world renown and as well as one
of the best places for shelling.
The old phosphate dock.
 A view from behind includes the fresh water cisterns as Boca Grande
is a barrier island and that was hard to come by back in the day.
The second lighthouse reassembled in 1927 and relit in 1932 - 
works in conjuction as range lights with the pass lighthouse that was
first lit in 1890 - restored in 1985 and relit in 1986.
When sailors saw the 2 lights line up they knew to turn in the pass.

How cool is that.
In a nut shell.

You may see this in a page.
Just sayin....