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We stayed at Fort DeSoto Park on a Key just south of St. Petersburg. We had a waterfront site with mangroves to protect against the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We met Phan, a friend of ours from when we lived in California, and her friend Sherri. Phan lives in Dallas now and has a house in Sarasota. We met at her sisters house in Bradenton which is on a canal off the Manatee River. We borrowed their kayaks and went for a paddle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spent the day is St. Petersburg. We went to the Dali museum. They had an AI exhibit where you typed in your dream idea and it created a painting for you. I put in a beach house with a tiki hut, you can see my painting below. We then walked through a farmers market and went to the St. Pete Pier. After lunch we walked through the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We met Phan and Sherri again, this time at the Sarasota Polo Club to watch a Polo match. After the match Phan suggested we go to the Tampa Power Company. The water around it is very warm and manatees like to gather there. They have a large viewing platform and educational area. We saw well over 100 manatees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We finally made it to some craft breweries in Florida. We would recommend both Gulfport Brewing and 3 Daughter’s Brewing. For ice cream we would recommend Bright Ice Scoop Shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We stayed at Fort DeSoto Park on a Key just south of St. Petersburg. We had a waterfront site with mangroves to protect against the wind. We met Phan, a friend of ours from when we lived in California, and her friend Sherri. Phan lives in Dallas now and has a house in Sarasota. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2024","tag-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcyfamily.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}