Let me start by refreshing your memory about Florida – Florida is HOT & HUMID!!! Now that that’s out of the way.
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 Elevation 15. \u00a0Temperature is still brain boiling hot with 1000010% humidity. We moved about 105 miles today.
We’re at Myakka River State Park, which is one of the largest & oldist state parks in hot & humid Florida. The sites are pretty large and level, this one has some shade. We’re here for 3 nights, it’s booked solid for the weekend, otherwise we may have stayed a little longer.
Once we got set up we went for a drive around the park, there is a fairly large lake in the park at around 1000 acres and the water is up, the roadway is the highest point around so the deer and birds are pretty much tame and ignore vehicles as they drive slowly by.<\/p>\r\n
I feel the price is very misleading. This site was $26 online but by the time you add in all the other charges it came out to $39 a night, like I said, misleading.<\/p>\r\n
This morning we took a boat tour, we were the only passengers on the boat, we didn’t get to see many animals or gators, since it’s so blasted HOT the gators are staying in the water where it’s cooler, they are out on the banks more in cooler weather soaking up the sunshine.<\/p>\r\n
So anyway, after the boat ride and another drive through the park we headed for the Gulf of Mexico and the beach. It was slightly less HOT at the waters edge but heading back to the parking lot the heat returned quickly. We stopped at several of the beaches in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Siesta Beach was busy, of course it’s voted the best beach in USA, I don’t know voted best by who, it’s a white sand beach, the sand is really fine, not as fine as I am, mind you, but it’s still pretty fine. It was much more solid too, not washing out from under your feet when a wave comes in, the other beaches the sand washed out from under your feet making walking difficult as the waves were retreating.<\/p>\r\n\n\t\t