Fort De Soto Campground and home!

This is a municipal campground located south of St Petersburg and VERY nice! Make reservations ahead of time.  We were lucky to get 2 nights but had to switch sites but that was easy for us to do.  The second site was on the water but all the sites are large and pretty and private with lots of trees.  It is a great place to kayak but too windy during our stay.  There are miles of paved walking and bike trails but they are not shaded.

We drove up to the pier and beaches which were beautiful white sand with lots of sea shells.  Pete collected a bunch for our little girls.  This is the most incredibly comfortable blow up "beach lounge" we have even seen.  These two girls looked very relaxed!

There was lots of kite surfing going on at the beaches.  It was a beautiful sight with the Tampa Bay Sunshine Bridge in the background.  The struts and the curve of the kites are actually blow up with a mechanical air pump.  These surfers were doing flips 15 feet up in the air!

This was the perfect place to put up our hammock and just rock away the hours of our last two days of vacation.

What a great way to end our 2017 Winter Florida adventure!
Happy husband, happy wife, happy dog--we are so grateful to have this time in the sun.  I think this was our favorite winter trip because we were able to spend time with so many of our friends and family.
We would love to do this trip again sometime.  Time to start planning for next winter's trip out West!



On the way home we stopped at Chassahowitzka River Campground and canoe rental. It is a cool spring fed river with manatees. Normally you can canoe or kayak in the river with the manatees but this year they did not come since it was such a warm winter. This is 15-20 miles south of Crystal river.