December 2018 - Siesta Key
Our Florida roadtrip ended with a few days on the beach at Siesta Key. There's not a whole lot ot say pictures-wise, since it was just a lot of relaxing on the beach, shelling, reading, and having a great time. We tried to do a little snorkeling but the visibility was very poor due to some storms the week before. While attempting to snorkel, we swam out about a hundred yards or so, and found that we were able to stand in shallow water on a sandbar. While we were standing there, we had the incredible experience of having large pods of stringrays swim right past us at the surface. Each pod was a dozen or more stingrays, and while we stood there there were 6 or 7 pods that swam past us in the course of 15 minutes - more than a hundred total stingrays. They were swimming right at the surface, so you could see them really clearly, and some of them came within a few feet of our legs. Pictures can't quite capture how cool of an experience it was, but you can check out the video at the bottom anyway.
Our Florida roadtrip ended with a few days on the beach at Siesta Key. There's not a whole lot ot say pictures-wise, since it was just a lot of relaxing on the beach, shelling, reading, and having a great time. We tried to do a little snorkeling but the visibility was very poor due to some storms the week before. While attempting to snorkel, we swam out about a hundred yards or so, and found that we were able to stand in shallow water on a sandbar. While we were standing there, we had the incredible experience of having large pods of stringrays swim right past us at the surface. Each pod was a dozen or more stingrays, and while we stood there there were 6 or 7 pods that swam past us in the course of 15 minutes - more than a hundred total stingrays. They were swimming right at the surface, so you could see them really clearly, and some of them came within a few feet of our legs. Pictures can't quite capture how cool of an experience it was, but you can check out the video at the bottom anyway.
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| Siesta Key! | Sunset of the Gulf of Mexico | |
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| Our incredible bounty of shells, some collected here at Siesta and many from our stay in Sanibel earlier in the trip | The beach, empty first thing in the morning | |
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| Enjoying the incredible sand | A great beach day | The north end of the beach |
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| The brown circles are one of a whole chain of pods of stingrays that swam right by us | Some more behind the scenes of our filming | The very important cornhole scene |
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| Toasting a successful end of filming |
A pod of stingrays swimming right past us as we stand on a sandbar.