Terry drove us to Honeymoon State Park where we took a little walk-on ferry to Caladesi Island State Park. This is one of the little barrier islands along the west coast. Undisturbed pine flatwoods such as the one on Caladesi are rare on Florida's barrier islands. On the eastern shore of the island, red, black and white mangroves, along with buttonwood, comprise the mangrove forest. These trees provide shoreline protection and nursery habitat for many fish and invertebrates.
The beach here has been named the number one beach in America twice, a record! It has nearly four miles of beach of the finest white sand I have ever walked on. It is on the Great Florida Birding Trail and one is likely to see shorebirds, loggerhead and green sea turtles, egrets and porpoise swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
Today we saw two adults and a baby porpoise swimming in the shallow waters between Caladesi Island and the mainland, while we were on the ferry. Cute little porpoise. Later, as Terry and I were sitting on the beach, just looking out and chatting away, we saw another porpoise breaching and playing in the waves.
Pic above is of Terry walking along the beach, before she got a sunburn!!! She is a little pink this evening. I am dark but not burned...
I wonder what will happen tomorrow!!!!
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