We knew we had a short day of driving, but one of the very first things we had to do was drive over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to cross the Tampa Bay. It's a cable-stayed bridge, 4 miles long, and very impressive. Also very intimidating for Joe, but he white-knuckled his way across like a champ.
We drove south through Sarasota and stopped at a Wednesday morning farmers market. This place was packed, lots of retired people with time in the middle of the day. Bought an onion, orange and great looking tomato.
Our campground is just outside Nokomis/Venice, and we drove by the entrance on the way to the public beach in Nokomis. It was barely 10am, but getting busy already. We hung out for an hour or so and left for lunch. Lunch was just down the road at Nokomos, a tiki hut style restaurant, and we got there right at 11:30. We were the first ones there, but by the time we were done the place was packed and there was a line outside waiting. We beat the old people for lunch in Florida, not everyone can say that.
The thing to do in this area is look for fossilized sharks teeth on the beach. We went a bit further south to Caspersen Beach because I read somewhere this was a good place to find them. Also a very busy place, I think we took the last parking space.
We were very unprepared for finding shark teeth, since we brought nothing but a container to hold our treasures. Most people have a shovel/scooper type thing that lets you dig down into the sand and then bring the stuff out to look through. We were sitting next to a professional that not only had the scooper thing, but had also made a floating raft out of screen, pool noodles and pvc pipe. He would bring up the sand/shells/maybe teeth mixture, dump it out on the raft and sort through it. The raft had a lanyard connected to his shorts so it wouldn't float away, a small plastic jar to hold the teeth, and best of all had hand drawn shark teeth on it to identify his finds. Clearly this method works, because while we found maybe 15 the whole day, this guy had a half a cup worth in an hour. Jealous, we left and went to Goodwill and bought some colanders to up our game (and also a beach umbrella). We went back to the Nokomis beach and walked a bit and looked for more teeth.
Finally checked in at the campground. Started our laundry, took a walk around the park, had dinner. A little buggy once the sun went down. Will try to watch the sunset from the beach tomorrow.
76 miles
122 spent
4 farmers market
1.50 tolls
17 Goodwill
37 lunch
30 liquor store
3.50 laundry
29 Oscar Scherer State Park
We drove south through Sarasota and stopped at a Wednesday morning farmers market. This place was packed, lots of retired people with time in the middle of the day. Bought an onion, orange and great looking tomato.
Our campground is just outside Nokomis/Venice, and we drove by the entrance on the way to the public beach in Nokomis. It was barely 10am, but getting busy already. We hung out for an hour or so and left for lunch. Lunch was just down the road at Nokomos, a tiki hut style restaurant, and we got there right at 11:30. We were the first ones there, but by the time we were done the place was packed and there was a line outside waiting. We beat the old people for lunch in Florida, not everyone can say that.
The thing to do in this area is look for fossilized sharks teeth on the beach. We went a bit further south to Caspersen Beach because I read somewhere this was a good place to find them. Also a very busy place, I think we took the last parking space.
Finally checked in at the campground. Started our laundry, took a walk around the park, had dinner. A little buggy once the sun went down. Will try to watch the sunset from the beach tomorrow.
76 miles
122 spent
4 farmers market
1.50 tolls
17 Goodwill
37 lunch
30 liquor store
3.50 laundry
29 Oscar Scherer State Park
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