Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Myakka State Park

Ken and I decided to do something different today and go to a place where we have never been before - Myakka State Park.  A couple on the Legacy Trail yesterday recommended that we check it out for bike riding and hiking, so we headed there right after breakfast. 

What an interesting area!  There are miles of trails, both for hiking and biking, plus lots of birds and alligators.  The park also offers narrated boat and tram tours, bike and kayak rentals, and a wonderful cafe area that offers great food plus beer and wine - in a state park! They have 3 different camping areas plus remote campsites that you can only get to on foot.  After following the 1 hiking trail you climb 2 large towers connected by a suspension bridge.  This is called the canopy bridge that is above the treetops.  It gives you a view of the land plus the insects and the air ferns, etc.  We hadn't taken our bikes so we just did numerous hiking trails!

We were back to the CG by 3:45 and played some shuffleboard.  It was my day to shine!  Fun for me!! 

Mama and her Baby!

What a beautiful natural place!

Quite a large fellow!!!!


Enjoying a relaxing moment!

Daring Ken!

Suspension Bridge!  Relatively new!


Quite a view from the observation tower!



We really loved this area!
This morning was were up at 5:15 (actually Ken was up from 3:30 on) and left by 6:00 AM to go to Caspersen Beach to look for sharks teeth.  He was so anxious he just couldn't sleep!  We were told you can find a lot of teeth in the early morning at low tide!  We had parked Willie near the CG gate so that we would not wake up the camping folks when we started up our loud diesel in the eary morning hours.  We were on Caspersen Beach by 6:20 in the dark.  Using our flashlights, we started our search.  We had no luck the 1st 1/2 hour - why did we get up so early for this?????  But, once it got light and we got further down the beach, bingo!!!!  We started finding lots of sharks teeth.  We only left the beach around 10 after finding about 150 teeth.  Wow!!!

We spent the afternoon on Nokomis Beach.  It was so beautiful today - sunny and in the upper 70's.  Can't get much better!  More shuffleboard and we each won a game.  How can you be so competitive playing shuffleboard????

Can't believe a whole week has gone by since we arrived at the Royal Coachman!  Time in Florida goes by quickly!!

A shell tree on the beach!  The shells "stuck" there with the tide!

Caspersen Beach early this morning!


A successful morning of shark teeth hunting!!!

When they built the walkway at the restrooms at Caspersen
Beach they added sharks teeth to the cement!  Rather "cool".

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