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Troy Friedlander just caught this nice little male snook next to us up here on the north end of 3-Rooker Island. It’s really beautiful out here, a nice breeze. Get out, and go boating.

Yep, today was pretty cool! It was a great day on the water. The environment seemed quite happy with us. Jen, my buddy John’s girlfriend is new to the area and hadn’t been on a boat before. I’d like to think the experience was a mostly good experience where she was able to see a lot of what the coastline can do. We saw osprey diving into the water chasing dinner, large and small stingrays on the grass flats in the protected coves. We saw big schools of dolphins with the adult dolphins swimming alongside the small young dolphins. We watched the little baby dolphins playing as they swam around behind the north end of Honeymoon Island. The little dolphins were being especially playful, rolling around and surfacing like there weren’t 10 boats in the surrounding waters. When we reached Caladesi the hill tide was in full effect creating a lazy river in the waterway behind the island, a common sight for this protected little cove. We enjoyed the fast moving water and dropping tide where we saw an abundance of birds and other water creatures. The birds included great blue herons, pink spoonbills, plovers, seagulls, and oystercatchers. There were so many crabs back there it was really awesome. Hermit crabs housed in old sea shells were scattered across the bottom. We picked them up as we floated along the lazy river. There was a little tiny crab that looked like a stone crab hiding in the bottom of a large scallop like shell. Fiddler crabs were right along the edge of the lazy river. I walked right up to the large cluster of them on the beach. I even found the rare sand dollar buried in the sand. It was a truely eventful afternoon. We ended up eating at the restaurant on the causeway called High and Dry. Elissa Day had told me she worked there, and I had no idea what or where High and Dry was until we stopped and ate at the little tiki hut on the Dunedin Causeway today. The food wasn’t very good, but I can definitely give them props on the location. We sat as the sun approached the sunset. It was such a nice day and a nice evening, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick that’s for sure. If you can get on the water you should. Go see what you can find. There’s so much to see.

Here’s the Caladesi Island lazy river video from today with myself and friends. You’ll also see the bird called a oystercatcher and fiddler crabs.
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Also check out this 1 minute clip of black skimmers on 3-Rooker Island.