I love Fort DeSoto, especially when we get a water site, and this last weekend we had a beautiful site–#219…even though we had to be in line at 4am in order to get the site, it was well worth the lack of sleep. We were able to launch the boats and had a view of a wonderful sunset. It was very hot out, but we had a great breeze all day Saturday, which made the day enjoyable. Several co-worker friends of Kevin’s came by to join us and hopefully enjoyed their time with us. For some reason we never brought out our cameras…
There are several things that are so cool about Fort DeSoto, but my favorite is the wild life. So many different types of birds: woodpeckers, brown pelicans, herrons, ergrets, roseata spoonbills and in the winter months white pelicans…just to name a few.
When the tide is out, the birds seem to come out in groves. We had two roseata spoonbills right out by our campsite having dinner. They are so beautiful.
When the tide is in different wild life comes out. Saturday morning we had a Manatee swimming and munching on the sea grass right out by our campsite. Several different sitings of Dolphins, the guys had a baby Dolphin swimming by them. The baby was curious and tried to swim over to their boats and the mommy would not allow it, she intercepted the baby and steered the baby away for the boats….too cool.
Then comes night time…racoons…lol. You have to remember to put away all food or anything that might interest these scavengers. I learned my lesson the hard way. They left foot prints on Kevin’s kayak, but we did not leave them anything to eat, so they moved on to terriorized others.
Great beaches, biking/walking trails and great camping sites are other great reasons to visit Fort Desoto.
