Cayo Costa State Park

While anchored at Cabbage Key/Useppa, we dinghied over to Cayo Costa State Park on a neighboring island. We took a "trolley" to the beach which was actually more shell mound than sand. The mosquitoes were ferocious until we were actually on the beach itself. The island is also home to numerous wild pigs. We saw a few but were not able to get pictures.

After our day on the beach we went back to our boats and prepared to leave the next day to go to Boca Grande. As we traveled we were visited by two dolphins for about 20 minutes.

This one liked leaping from the water on his side and making a large splash on re-entry. They seem to be quite vain as they will usually swim right next to the boat and roll on their side to see if anyone is there looking at them.