The Captain and I recently spent a beautiful and sunny Florida day on the white sandy gulf beach at Fort Desoto Park in St. Petersburg, Florida.
We couldn't have picked a better day . . . no rain, no storms . . . very unusual for this time of year. There is nothing like sunning on the beach and cooling off in the warm, salty and refreshing Gulf of Mexico.
Our day started very early in the morning . . . we arrived as the sun came up . . . daybreak on the Gulf of Mexico beaches is awesome!
The park offers great diversity with a wealth of bird life, sea life, wild life and plant life. We just visited the beach, but the park also includes two fishing piers, campgrounds, the historial forts, museum, boating and so much more.
Although it has been many years, it was one of my favorite places to go camping, where you can encounter cute raccoons that are very adept at stealing food, hiking or biking through the trails or fishing from your camp site. An awesome place to go camping, if that is your thing.
The park consists of 1,136 acres of protected islands . . . home to beach plants, mangroves, wetlands, palm hammocks, hardwoods and native plants. It is the one place in this area that I imagine is as it was when the Spanish explorers first discovered its vast beauty.
The park's natural ecosystems provides a home to more than 290 documented species of birds and the beaches provide refuge to the loggerhead sea turtle as they nest between April and September.
Fort De Soto's three miles of white sandy beaches was named America’s Top Beach for 2009 by Trip Advisor, the world's largest online travel community. In 2005, “Dr. Beach,” named Fort De Soto the nation’s #1 Beach.
Here are some photos we took . . .
Click here for the official website of Fort Desoto Park.
We plan on visiting again very soon to check
out other amenities the park provides . . .
hopefully for a couple days of camping and fishing!
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