Tampa, Largo, Clearwater and the Gulf Beaches

Redington, Treasure Island, Madeira, St. Pete’s,

From Lake Placid, we drove west and then north past Sarasota and across the Tampa Bay bridge to our new campground in Largo. We quickly got set up and then drove to Tampa to scoop up John’s daughter, Bonnie, from the airport. Bonnie was with us for the past week and we spent lots of time at the beach, at the park’s pool, went to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, went to Caddy’s on the beach at the south end of Treasure Island, ate the best seafood ever at Crabby Bill’s, did a wee bit of shopping and

grabbed a mega-shake at Steak and Shake.











Our friends, Steve and Linda Borovoy from Ottawa, co-own a place about a mile from the RV park in a ‘manufactured home community for over 55”. They call their place “The Palace”. We hung out with Steve and Linda and her sister Carol and brother-in-law Mike for at least a couple of hours each day. We went to the beach at Indian Rocks, shopped at John’s Pass located at the south end of Madeira Beach, toured the Flea Market, did a wee bit of shoe shopping, had a (second) great seafood dinner at Crabby Bill’s and a real Mexican lunch at Carmelita’s. In the middle of all this, we had one FULL day of rain and I mean an entire day.

I must say that Largo is a terrific location – 20 minutes to Tampa, around the corner to St. Petersburg, 20 minutes to the string of Gulf Beaches and a short hop to Clearwater. The beach sand is like powder. Bonnie described the sand as white and velvety and said the water in the Gulf was "unlimited". This is a VERY nice part of Florida. Mega thanx to Steve and Linda for referring us to this campground and for letting us hang out with them for the week - it was great!

On to Homosassa Springs later today – yes, it’s farther north (but only about 60 miles) and heading north means starting to head to Atlanta, to Richmond and then home.