Fort De Soto

 Trying to catch the sun rise from the room.

 Sunday morning beach walk

 

 Walked south

 

 

 

 

DoubleTree. No microwave in the room. No free breakfast.  I had cold chicken and potato salad for dinner on Saturday. More potato salad for breakfast today.

 Ordered a sub on line from Publix.  Checked out, picked it up, on the way to Fort Desoto.

 On the water at Soldiers Hole at 12:05

 

Snoozing pelican

Juvenile yellow crowned night herons

 

Scaups

 

A wide variety amount of birds in the mangroves and on the water

Great blue heron

Tri colored heron

 

Yellow crowned night heron

 

 

 Ibis

Young blue heron

 Merganser

Cormorant

 

 

 White pelicans across the channel

 I paddled across, to Shell Key, for a closer look.

 

 

Spear fishing

 

 

 Don Cesar reflection

 

 

This may have been the most white pelicans I have ever seen.  Large flocks on both ends of Shell Key

 

 I was thinking of paddling around Shell Key, but would have had to portage at the north end

 

 

 

 

 

 Sunshine Skyway

Shell Key angler

 Lunch stop, back on Mullet Key.  My Publix sub was delicious.  As I write 12 days later I recall it was turkey, swiss, spinach, tomato, spicy mustard, garlic pickles, and bacon.

Loon

 

 

 

Osprey

 

 

 Did not land here

Landed here. 5:30.  The cone was dry when I launched.  Tide. To the Gulf Pier for sunset

 

 

 

 

 Egmont Key Lighthouse

 Guiding freighters in the channel

 

 The clouds and water vapor made it look like the Gulf was on fire

 

 

 

 Wish they were kayaking.

 Leaving Fort DeSoto

 Had to stop.  Lowest I have seen.  Two weeks later, I'm paying $2.09.