A Trip To Lake Tarpon

Due to the suggestion of a fellow owner of a 19-foot Com-Pac sailboat, we decided to make a trip to Lake Tarpon to see how the lake would bear up to launching a sailboat (we would have tried to sail the lake but we were feeling a bit rough due to a bad case of the stomach flu) and to look into a nice place to eat sometime during the ride. We saw quite a bit of neat things while we walked around Anderson Park.

For instance, we watched this great snowy egret trying out his fishing skills. He did pretty well...

The view from the boat ramp is pretty nice.

We even strolled along some of the footpaths in the park.

The foot path is peppered with these little picnic table/barbecue areas. When Katrina and I stopped at one, this Anhinga was sunning himself, trying to dry his feathers.

He seemed pretty bold, and struck a pose for us a couple of times.

He was relatively unafraid of us, so we settled down and watched him for a while.

A lttle further down the path, we came across this snowy egret bedding down for the night.

At the end of the path, we sat on a park bench while the girls sat on a swing.

When we left the park, I decided to look for a restaurant that is supposed to be on the water called: The Tarpon Turtle. We found it and as I was checking out the docking situation, Luann heard this guy doing a live performance at the Turtle and recognized him as Alex Parnes, (Click Here To See His Website), somebody she had worked with for years. We stepped into the outdoor dining area to have dinner and talk to Alex when his 'set' was over. The dinner was great and we had a fun time watching a 3-foot alligator ("He's just a baby!!!) swim around the boat docks. This looks like a great place to take the family when they come down to visit.