Manatee Viewing

All the local tours and tourists visit the Manatee viewing area near the Apollo Beach power station. Even though it was a windy day we decided to ride our tandem from our campground a 17 mile roundtrip ride, mostly on sidewalks or safe bike lanes. It took us about 45 minutes in both directions.

Most of the ones we saw today looked like babies, when it’s colder many more bigger Manatees come here. There were all sorts of fairly good size Tarpon swimming around the warm power plant discharge.

Wednesday was the nicest day we had in a while and they are predicting rain for Thursday morning and then more cooler weather. At least we are not back home in all the snow and ice.

So I suggested that we bike over to the little restaurant that we discovered last year that puts on great fish dinners. It is casual outdoor dining at a place that looks like an old ice cream stand. It rates as the best seafood restaurant in the area and is only a 3 mile bicycle ride away.

We got there at 4 PM to beat the crowds and also to get back to camp before it got dark.