Forget the best table in town. This week, we traded a picnic table for a private island. The three of us plus Luke piled into the Koopa II and cruised to a county park in the middle of Sarasota Bay. It’s the same island that the Sarasota Bay Explorers stops at on their Sea Life Encounter Cruise and is located South of the North Bridge. It’s a pack-in, pack-out park; there are no garbage cans.
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Although there’s another island up toward Longboat Key with the same name, and probably countless others wherever water and teenagers exist, John calls this spot Beer Can Island. When he was in high school, it cost five bucks to catch a ride from shore and party all night. The island has been cleaned up since and doesn’t actually allow booze or dogs any more, but we didn’t know that when we packed the boat.
There were no other human visitors on the island but plenty of flyers and four-leggeds. The bunny had us pondering how it got there, and the Anhingas had us wishing they’d be quiet.
My camera batteries had died by then, but we caught sunset on the way home…best picnic yet!
