Sebastion Inlet State Park, Florida

May 13, 2015

Day 36

Woke up and had a great breakfast with Steve and Amy, blueberry pancakes, oranges and coffee and talked more about travel, kids and future trips. They are coming our way to house sit in Olympia at the end of July for 3 weeks so we are hoping they will contact us so we can get together again.  We headed south toward Miami and then Jack said he wouldn't mind camping again. After bug bites a few days ago,he had said he wasn't camping again in Florida, so Jodi was delightfully surprised.  The state park we were going to stay was closed for renovations so we didn't drive very far today and stayed at Sebastion Inlet State Park. Fabulous place, water, water, everywhere!

One flag tells you not to go in the water due to high rip tide and the other is for jellyfish and sharks in water.
No swimming in the Atlantic today!

3 miles of wild beach

 There are 3 miles of wild Atlantic beach, a swimming cove with Manatees and 77 degree water (I think it was warmer), a campground, fishing piers, and an inlet where the boats come in. Hot weather but lovely surroundings. We walked the wild beach, swam in the cove, tried to see a manatee underwater unsuccessfully and then had a salad and fruit dinner in the campground. At dusk we went back to the ocean beach and fishing pier to cool off and watch the fisherman. They were using those nets again to catch bait, but not as productively as at Fort de Soto. We saw a jack fish that one of them had caught and watched the birds and beautiful sunset. Bugs came out so to bed we went.

I asked a fisherman how late they fished and he said, "until the bait runs out"
I guess I must have asked a stupid question.

Jack with jack.  One of the fisherman let him hold it for the picture.