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Originally Posted by buggyone
Mrs. Buggy and I went with two of our best friends from The Villages to St. Pete Beach today. It is just about a 2 hour drive and we timed it so we got there around 11 am and left around 2:30 pm.
There is a little beach bar called The Undertow that has beer and drink specials until 5. We park in their lot, take our chairs and umbrella to the wide expansive beach - that has to have some of the finest and whitest sand in the world - and set up our stuff. Naturally, we have a couple of drinks at the bar since we use their free parking lot.
The water today was around 78 degrees (perfect) and was perfectly calm. The beach was totally uncrowded. Basically, it was a perfect day at the beach.
We left around 2:30 and got back home 2 hours later.
Living in Florida is WONDERFUL.
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We always will remember St. Pete as a beautiful wide beach; fond memories of staying there. Beautiful sand. Great waterfront as well.
Nice that you are so close for a day trip.
Another nice wide beach with
white sand like sugar is Ft. Myers Beach, also on the Gulf of Mexico plus Estero Beach, ditto. Not too far from Naples either. Our ex brother in law and his wife retired to Ft. Myers Beach from N.J. and love it. They kept their N.J. home as well; so bounce back and forth. The grandkids love to visit them.....as well as their two sons........quite often actually.
We were just looking at condos for rent at St. Pete and Ft. Myers.....many of which are already booked into 2016. Popular spot.....at least for the two condos we just looked at.