We are off to the beach today! We decided to head south on I-75 and visit Marco Island. Marco Island, as you might expect, has several beaches to choose from. Some have public access and some do not. We choose Tigertail Beach because it has public access, showers, restrooms, rentals, and a snack bar. We weren't planning on using any rentals, but one never knows with us! It also meets another requirement...it has shells! Lots of shells!
As soon as we got to Tigertail Beach Park, our first stop was...you guessed it...the snack bar. Then we walked the boardwalk a short distance to a beach, but this beach was not on the Gulf, it was on a lagoon.
Here's what we saw.
Kitty asked the man in the little thatched rental hut, how we get to the beach from here. "Maam, there's two ways to get there, you can walk across that lagoon in about 5 minutes. It's probably waist deep this time of day, or you can walk about 15 minutes around the lagoon." I asked the man, "Are there gators in the lagoon?" "Not that I know of," he replied. I asked, "Are there snakes in there?" He replied, "Not that I know of." Finally, I asked, "Are there flesh eating amoebas in there?" He replied, "What?"
Picture this! We are carrying two beach chairs, two beach bags, and one beach umbrella. We can save 10 minutes walking across the lagoon carrying all our stuff above our waists, or take the sand trail around the lagoon. Humm. Let me think about this a minute! We decided to not risk the flesh eating amoebas and took the sand trail.
It was a bit of a hike carrying our stuff with temperatures reaching the upper eighties, but, we made it and were glad we did!
Powder white sand, blue skies, a gentle breeze blowing in from the Gulf, wow!
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Here's my little shell collector, Kitty, enjoying the beach!
We love beaches and we liked this beach. We picked a great time to visit here as the beach was almost deserted. It was very quiet and relaxing. I guess you could say we had a shell of a good time!
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