St. Petersburg Pier and Gulfport

Our dinner conversation yesterday included activities in Gulfport, so we headed there morning. However, Bob's idea of where it is led us to St. Petersburg's Vinoy Park, where we hauled ourselves to a park bench to look at the map and watch the water.

The grey squirrels are about half the size of our jumbo Goodrich Avenue creatures, and the park was full of them. Dolphins soon appeared by the sea wall, and we soon saw three or four of them, at least one of which seemed to be putting on a show for us. Another thrill for us -- we watched them fish for 20 minutes or so. Fish, by the way, seem plentiful, a good thing if you're a dolphin.

We parked on the St. Petersburg Pier, a working fishing pier leading to a rather unattractive structure at the end of it. The pier building is vaguely geometric, not nearly as attractive as the original building. I was feeling a little peaked by the time we looked around a little, so we plunked ourselves down for a shared lunch of coconut shrimp at ... Cha Cha Coconuts.

After lunch the GPS guided us to Gulfport, our original destination. We must have missed the better venues, because we ended up in the neighborhood of the Casino, in a less than attractive part of town. By then we'd had enough and we set off for home. Ended the afternoon with a walk on the beach and a swim in the pool.