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As soon as we left shore
everyone was looking for the dolphins...there they are!
Two of them...and they look like they want to play! |
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The captain opened the throttle a bThey
wanted to play in the wake of the boat and swam with us for about
five minutes.
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says on Wikpedia-The island, named Egmont Key for the Earl of Egmont,
was surveyed by Spanish explorers in 1757. With the rest of Florida,
it passed back and forth between Spain and England and finally to
the United States in 1827. In 1847 concerns with hazardous navigation
at the mouth of Tampa Bay led the construction of the first lighthouse.
The Great Gale of 1848 swamped the island and all but destroyed the lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper reportedly rode out the storm in a rowboat tied to a palmetto. After the storm had passed, he rowed to Fort Brooke and tendered his resignation. In 1858, the lighthouse was replaced. |
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| Defense considerations during the Spanish-American War led to the construction of Fort Dade. Egmont Key remained a military reservation for years. In 1974 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took it over and turned the island over to the State of Florida in 1989 when it became a state park. Several cement structures dot the property |
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You can only get to Egmont
key by boat so the shells are great the beach was ours! Later in the day mom and dad went snorkeling but the water was too cold for me and the mention of jellyfish kept me in the boat! |
Come on! keep up-tomorrow we
go visit my friends Lauren and Kelly vacationing down in Sarasota...wonder
what they have been up to?!