After moving south towards Tampa, we stopped for a couple of days so we could see the sights. We started by going to Weeki Wachee Springs and the live mermaid show. This is another 1940's style tourist attraction so common to this area. This one features a 500 seat theater embedded in the side of the spring. The original owner was Newton Perry a former Navy man who trained SEALS to swim underwater during WWII. For Weeki Watchee he invented a method of breathing underwater from a freeflowing tube fed by an air compressor. With the air hose swimmers can perform whole shows underwater. Florida State Parks bought the attraction in 2008.
We saw Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid
Actors getting ready to drop into the show below
We went to learn more about alligators? This one is about a year and a half old. Gators live about 40 years.
The next day we rode south to the Tarpon Springs Sponge docks.
This guy was just hanging out
We saw the free movie about the history of the sponge indutry in Tarpon Springs
From there we went off to find some beaches. Howard Park was a nice place to start
The beaches are nice, but the traffic was not. After lunch at the Dunedin Smokehouse we tried to go onto the barrier islands but gave up and went back to camp. This is the time I miss having a car. Maybe we'll rent one for a day at the beach in Miami!
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