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Beach 2

Up and headed to the beach on Thursday morning.  We drove down a narrow winding road, Casey Key, through some very nice areas.  Some of these houses looked like castles.  At the far north end of this section is apartments/motels, one we had stayed at last year.  It had been pretty nice on that trip, staying right on the beach, but way more expensive than the $30/night campground we have this time around. 

Went back to Nokomis Beach, parked in a nice shady spot, and ready for shark teeth hunting.  Joe tried out the colander for sifting.  Not a ton of luck.  There was a big group of women there doing hula hoop aerobics on the beach.  Looks like a good workout. 

Headed through Venice and had lunch at the Old Salty Dog.  Joe had fish tacos, and I had the Salty Dog, which was a deep fried hot dog on a bun. Not a corn dog.  Good crunchy.  Joe liked the tacos.  We overlooked a marina and watched a guy use a giant forklift to move boats around on land.  The airport was nearby, and we watched probably 30 small planes come in.  Most looked like they held 4-6 people, but there were a few you'd call a "private jet".  Who is in these planes?  Joe thinks Harrison Ford.

Back to the beach, this time Manasota Key.  Right when we got to the beach we watched a guy catch a stingray.  The water here wasn't very clear, but Joe found a ton of treasures while I napped and read under the umbrella.

It was late afternoon when we left.  Stopped at an awesome fruit/veg/meat market and bought some oranges and fish dip and other things that caught out eye.  Back through town we stopped so Joe could buy some cigars, and then back to Venice Beach for the sunset.  It was just perfect. 
You would have thought we would have bought something for dinner from the store, but we are slackers.  Ordered a pizza and took it back to the campground for dinner.  It was really good, but gave both of us crazy dreams all night long.


43 miles
115.68 spent
38 Lunch Old Salty Dog
18.73 Pizza
29.95 Market
29 Oscar Scherer State Park

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