My niece and her good friend visited with us this past week and we managed to visit the beach every day for an hour or two...it was pure heaven. We're very fortunate here to be living in an area that boasts some of the prettiest beaches in America, including the number 1 beach (as ranked by by TripAdvisor, the world's largest online travel community, and Dr. Stephen Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach http://www.drbeach.org/).
Fort De Soto is a pristine area unencumbered with the dense development along most of the rest of Florida's western coastline, and is one of our favorite places to visit early Sunday mornings before the crowds show up.
With its spectacular combination of soft white sand, calm, clear water and a laid-back atmosphere sans the crowds found at our other popular beaches like St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island, Sunset Island (the gay beach), etc. Here you can walk for a couple of miles and only encounter a few folks along the way. There is even a stretch of folks who we call the "thong cult" that probably wish it were nude, but patrols keep them minimally clothed.
If you're ever down this way, you must check it out. It's definitely a piece of Florida we who grew up here remember as the way it used to be. Peace.
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