North Jetty - Nokomis Florida

The sun lured us out for another mini-bike ride today.  There are quite a few places within 20 or so miles of the house, but one of our favorites is the North Jetty.  There are several cuts where you can go from the Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf of Mexico.  This one has a long jetty and a park on both sides of the cut.

Lots of people coming out for a day on the beach now that we are fully into "the season".

Looking across the cut to the south jetty, we watched the dolphins frolicking amongst the boats going in and out to the Gulf.

Fishermen of all shapes and sizes:

Most were having success today:

Flounder for the bottom fishermen

Spanish Mackerel

Little Blue Heron

A whole tree full of Pelicans

The Jetty is a great place for looking for shells also.

 





Exploring SW Florida

Our grandson, Jesse, is visiting so we have been showing him all the fun places we have found here in SW Florida. 

Blind Pass on Manasota Key is a great place to look for prehistoric shark's teeth.

We always find some - even after thousands of people for many years have been collecting them.

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Lover's Key, just south of Ft Myers Beach is a wonderful State Park, where we can beachcomb on the Gulf,

or take a walk through the woods.

The variety of native plants seems endless.

He thought he was hiding in his burrow.  We saw many turtles.  Often we see Manatee in the water, sometimes alligators, always squirrels and raccoons.  The real Florida!

Flamingo Florida is kind of fun too.