Wednesday: St. Petersburg

One last breakfast out at the Cortez Cafe (this is the sign of the place next door - thought it was great given we could often bike faster than the cars going by!) and we were ready to go.

The trip to St. Petersburg would be about 3 hours across the lower end of Tampa Bay. Steve was fishing but there was once again no catching! Guess we need Peter and Cheryl with us to catch anything .....

The large freighters were out - this one passing under the Tampa Bay Bridge as we approached.

A second one was headed out of the Bay to the Gulf.  Under the bridge are huge concrete filled "bumpers" just in case a freighter should happen to miss the opening. At least it wouldn't bring down the bridge.

We've actually never been to this area by car but I wasn't too surprised to see all of the high rises along the water. Tampa Bay is amazing shallow for such a large body of water though. Much of the water you see in this picture is less than 5 feet deep.

After settling in on the transient dock (in between the 65' and 50' yachts :-) ), the dockmaster told us if we were willing to move into a slip around the corner, we could stay for more than just the two days he had at the transient dock.

Easy enough - we're settled for a few days now. The ducks showed up looking for a hand out. Clearly they are being fed by the boaters ;-)

Time to relax and check out what there is to do here!