Don Pedro Island

Sunday 2-15-09

We motored in the fog as far as Don Pedro Island. There's a public dock there and you can walk over to the beach. Still fogged in, there wasn't much of a crowd--even on Sunday.

The shells on Cayo Costa were not as plentiful in years past, and we wanted to see what might be on D.P. We have lots of shells at home, but I've been wanting to find a shark's tooth. When we took HOOK and Michelle to the secret tarpon spot, Pam and Michelle walked the beach, and Michelle found a shark's tooth. She told Pam there were more on Don Pedro than Cayo Costa. These are the small, fossilized, black sharks teeth. Been around longer than dirt. (Yes, since I'm older than dirt, I can remember that stuff.)

We started walking the beach at D.P. with the "Sanibel Stoop" looking for sharks teeth. It didn't take too long, and we started seeing them. We found a hundert of them. Actual count was 105.

We anchored for the night about 10 miles NOrth of D.P. and were able to get the last half of the Daytona 500 on our TV.

Monday 2-16-09

Motored NOrth up the ICW through Sarasota Bay and spent the night at anchor just off Longboat Key, near Longboat Pass. We plan to get back to Gulfport where we launched on Tuesday afternoon. We will be meeting Beth and Tracy, along with Holly, Madison, & Kendall. They're in a condo on St Pete Beach. We'll spend a few days with them, and then haul out and start home on Saturday.

I've noticed that the emails I send have a much brighter outlook when we're headed south instead of NOrth.