点评:Wife’s best friend was visiting from her home in Tennessee so we took a day for beach time. The two’s last beach visit was in 2016 prior to our move to Florida and her move to TN.
My wife and I live on the SE portion of the Tampa Bay Area and we normally frequent Lido Beach on Lido Key in Sarasota. But my wife wanted to save that for another day and venture to Anna Maria Island. We stopped at Manatee Beach park where we have been a couple of times but not in a while. We had lunch prior to arrival and got to the beach a bit late around 2 PM. The weather was good, a bit overcast and windy, but the temps were a little above normal at about 82 degrees. Still the water was a bit cold for us older folks but there were plenty of kids in the water having fun and a few adults.
The sand is not as white or fine as lido but still it’s a good sand base not really rocky as other places. If you’re planning to bring a beach cart you’ll still have some “slogging” to do if you’re bringing a heavy load. We found our spot just by the volleyball courts and set up camp. We were visited by seagulls but they weren’t a nuisance just birds being birds and it was nice seeing them in the area. My wife and her friend used the time mainly for catch up and sunning. I took walks, got my feet wet, and collected some shells. Again, there was a good amount of people for a Thursday afternoon in November.
As far as the beach: there is a small store, a restaurant, changing booths, and bathrooms. The beach does have a lifeguard station so if you have smaller children or members of your group that aren’t strong swimmer that can be an item of consideration.
It’s a good place for fun in the sun especially if you have young children.
One postscript: this visit was approximately one month after Hurricane Milton but the damage from Milton at this point was minimal and had no impact on our visit .
翻译:妻子最好的朋友从田纳西州的家里来探望我们,所以我们花了一天时间去海滩。我们俩最后一次去海滩是在 2016 年,当时我们搬到了佛罗里达州,她也搬到了田纳西州。
我和妻子住在坦帕湾地区的东南部,我们通常经常去萨拉索塔利多岛的利多海滩。但我的妻子想把那一天留到另一天,去安娜玛丽亚岛探险。我们在海牛海滩公园停了下来,我们去过那里几次,但好久没去了。我们在到达之前吃了午饭,下午 2 点左右才到海滩。天气很好,有点阴天和有风,但温度略高于正常水平,大约 82 度。对于我们这些老年人来说,水还是有点冷,但有很多孩子在水里玩得很开心,还有一些成年人。
沙子不像利多那么白或细,但它仍然是一个好的沙基,不像其他地方那样多岩石。如果您打算带沙滩车,那么如果您要带很重的东西,您仍然需要“辛苦”地跋涉。我们在排球场旁边找到了一个地方并扎营。海鸥来拜访我们,但它们并不令人讨厌,只是鸟类而已,看到它们在附近真是太好了。我的妻子和她的朋友主要利用这段时间追赶和晒太阳。我散步,把脚弄湿,收集了一些贝壳。同样,在十一月的一个星期四下午,这里人很多。
至于海滩:这里有一家小商店、一家餐厅、更衣室和浴室。海滩确实有一个救生站,所以如果你有小孩或你的团里的成员游泳能力不强,这可能是一个考虑因素。
这是一个在阳光下玩耍的好地方,特别是如果你有年幼的孩子。
附言:这次访问是在飓风米尔顿过后约一个月进行的,但此时米尔顿造成的损失很小,对我们的访问没有影响。