{"id":439,"date":"2006-12-03T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2006-12-03T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T10:54:42","slug":"skyway-fishing-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Skyway Fishing Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the road again, and it feels good!   We towed the Airstream down to Ft De Soto for the afternoon, and met Brett, and another Airstream couple, Terry &#038; Marie, at our &#8220;day camp&#8221; by the North Beach.  They brought motor scooters, so I got to take one out and give Emma a ride.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ft De Soto Emma scooter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Ft%20De%20Soto%20Emma%20scooter.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the neat things about taking your Airstream to Ft De Soto is that you can park on the bay at several points, on reasonably firm sand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Ft%20De%20Soto%20beach%20camp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ft De Soto beach camp.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Ft%20De%20Soto%20beach%20camp-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our next stop was the Sunshine Skyway South Fishing Pier, across Tampa Bay.  Readers of the Vintage Thunder blog last year may recall we&#8217;ve been here before.  It&#8217;s a neat spot for an overnight.  Bert &#038; Janie drove out to join us for the evening, just to see what it&#8217;s like.  They may bring their Airstream next time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Skyway%20kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Skyway kids.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Skyway%20kids-thumb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bert interviews some fishermen on the Skyway Pier<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After sunset Bert and I went down the pier to try to get some night shots of the nearby Sunshine Skyway Bridge.  I like how this bridge looks like a sailing ship at night, but it&#8217;s tough to get a decent shot even with a tripod.  We were at it with two Nikons and long lenses, for half an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Skyway%20Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Skyway Bridge.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Skyway%20Bridge-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a quiet, if damp, night on the pier.  Being over the water, a mile from shore, it is naturally very humid.  But the temperatures have been perfect and as I type this, the sun is rising to give a pink and blue start to the day.  We&#8217;ll tow south today, either to Naples, the Everglades, or the Keys, depending on how it goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Skyway%20Fishing%20Pier%20camping%20spot.kmz\">Our Google Earth position on the Skyway Pier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the road again, and it feels good! We towed the Airstream down to Ft De Soto for the afternoon, and met Brett, and another Airstream couple, Terry &#038; Marie, at our &#8220;day camp&#8221; by the North Beach. They brought motor scooters, so I got to take one out and give Emma a ride. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}