Our visit to what we think is the best beach in Florida!!

We hate leaving our peaceful paradise!  It takes dragging in some cases to get Jim to go anywhere.  I don't really like leaving either but sometimes you do have to at least get a few groceries.  And this coming week is filled with doctor/dentist appointments. So we thought we would give ourselves a nice day at the beach.

Not a local one though as they are all crap.  We ended up spending the day at what was our favorite beach when we lived in Clearwater, Indian Rocks Beach.   I don't know why it is called Indian Rocks, it should be called Interesting Rocks beach as we have taken home several weird looking rocks, one we found out was a meteorite! And several "rocks" turned out not to be rocks at all but Pleistocene fossil remains of several animals. I have a dish of over twenty horse teeth, a sloth tooth, assorted animal bones, hundreds of fossil shark teeth and even a prehistoric section of a deer antler!  And usually you can find some decent shells too.  I don't care what "Dr. Beach" says Indian Rocks Beach rocks!!  

We started out on our LONG drive. OMG, 2 hours of torture! We forgot how long a drive it is from where we are! It's funny but I am originally from RI where NOTHING in that state is a long drive, yet if locals have to drive even close to an hour in one direction they usually get a hotel for the night! I find that hilarious now when it is a 10 mile drive (one direction)for us just to buy food.

Finally we arrived a little before 11am, so the beach was picked clean of the prime shells but we still managed to find a few things including a couple of shark's teeth.

Our haul from the this most recent trip to IRB

A huge horse tooth from a previous beach trip

Rainbow on IRB

We walked the beach, dug for shells, both had a long nap listening to the white noise of the beach, and I even went in the water for a little while! We missed doing all that, but with the hellacious drive in mind it may be the LAST trip to IRB. 

After leaving the beach I wanted to stop at a place called Tampa Bay Salvage. I saw an add online and thought they had the coolest stuff! Well they didn't disappoint!  We drove up to find remnants of two piper club planes, an ox cart and Indian Taxi, and an old red British phone booth! And that was just some of the things outside. We loved browsing through all the neat stuff,  a moose antler bar, three hundred year old monastery doors, etc!  I though the little piper cub would make an awesome child's bed for any kid into aviation!  We didn't come home with anything but that's not saying we won't go back and get one of their unusual finds.  Loved the ox carts!! 

Indian Taxi

One of two ox carts

Then back home to our little piece of heaven.  It's nice to get away but nicer to go home.