{"id":3202,"date":"2022-02-09T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:03:04","slug":"searching-for-alligators-because-we-dont-need-to-look-for-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Alligators Because We Don’t Need to Look for Adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I will start by apologizing for the length of time between posts this year but it seems each week brings a new adventure… this even as we are on this great adventure! The journey down the GICW (Gulf Intercostal Waterway) from Tarpon Springs to Pine Island Sound was a tour of Florida’s palatial waterfront estates and the sky high condos everyone else lives in. Once we arrived in Pine Island Sound, the pristine barrier islands and nature preserves took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standard for this story, right? The adventure part is all that happened along the way… a visit to Boston for some baby tourism (good adventure), no engine cooling water in Longboat Key (bad adventure), an imploded impeller in Sarasota Bay (bad adventure) and, in the words of our friend Dave, a shocking experience (bad adventure) returning from a leisure afternoon sail and picnic lunch with guests on board (good adventure). There will be more to this story but for now, let’s just enjoy the scenery…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The waterfront in St Petersburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Look where the Provincetown ferry spends the winter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Petersburg hosts the Dali Museum. Spectacular!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A snapshot of the Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bradenton or Clearwater… hard to tell the FL west coast towns apart from the water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone wants to live here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Art imitating life…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The closer we got to Pine Island Sound, the closer housing got to the ground.\ud83d\ude1c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cayo Costa and Pelican Bay<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Pelican Bay is a perfect anchorage, protected in almost all winds and provides easy access to Cayo Costa State Park. The state park has small cabins & tent sites, beautiful trails, great shelling beaches and \ud83c\udf66!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, yes, and wildlife and stunning sun rises and sets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And warm weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will start by apologizing for the length of time between posts this year but it seems each week brings a new adventure… this even as we are on this great adventure! The journey down the GICW (Gulf Intercostal Waterway) from Tarpon Springs to Pine Island Sound was a tour of Florida’s palatial waterfront estates… Continue reading Searching for Alligators Because We Don’t Need to Look for Adventure!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-coast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}