We ended our Tourist Saturday at Joan M. Durante Community Park, a park that neither John nor I knew existed. We were driving home through Longboat Key and spotted it. We had to turn around, and I’m so glad we did. This is the entrance:
It’s a 32-acre park that sits right on Sarasota Bay. Trails wind through a created wetland system, a mangrove forest and a hammock of Sea Grapes and Red Cedars.
Every once in a while the trees open up to offer some incredible views of the bay…
…and they allow dogs! Get ready, Pirate Lukey!
Oh, Lukey. Captain Jack Sparrow has nothing on you. Those eyes, that pose…
Been thinking about this park every since and wondering if there is a letterbox there?
There sure is, and it was placed by the same person who left St. Francis Feeds the Birds.