This is the third day of our island hoping adventure with our neighbors Ted and Pat on Florida's southwest coast. (Please see my previous blog date December 8th & 9th) Today we are heading to Tigertail beach located on Marco Island just a few miles south of Naples.
Marco Island is the largest of Florida's 10,000 islands. With that many islands to visit, we will be busy for several decades! But, this current trip is only four days and we have a total of three islands to visit plus we are camping on an island on the Caloosahatchee River north east of Fort Myers.
With so many islands to visit, they have to be special to warrant a return visit, and Marco Island is more than worthy of a return visit. Tigertail beach is blessed with powdery white sand, a variety of plentiful sea shells, modern restrooms, showers, snack bar, and beach rental equipment. On this cool December day by south Florida standards, we had the most of the beach to ourselves and enjoyed picking out only the best shells that were begging to be picked.
The delicious water front lunch we enjoyed at the Snook Inn had us all fortified with plenty of energy for several hours of shelling, and the additional half mile walk around the lagoon to get to the beach.
Walking around this lagoon helped us burn a few extra calories. It was a little cool to wade through the lagoon today and we aren't good at walking on water, so walking around it was our only choice.
Tigertail Beach is well worth the few extra steps to get there.
This view is looking south toward Marco Island hotels and condos.
Pat has her ear bags on and Kitty has her hood up today!
This Osprey is making sure those ladies behave!
We picked up plenty of shells to add to our collections. The cool fresh air, pristine sand, sunny skies, and plenty of laughs made this a marvelous day we won't soon forget. With only one more day left on this island trip, we saved the best one for last. Stay tuned there's more to follow.
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