Water Felt Cold In Venice

So Mom and I went to Venice, FL and found Caspersen Beach near the airport. Nice wooden walkways over the dunes. Tide was in and not much beach showing but lots of folks with their water digging and straining gear. As rookies, our eyes were not trained for seeing the teeth and a couple of helpful guys found teeth in our piles of shell and gave them to me. I ended up finding 2 and Mom one so we left happy. I had my original dive goodie bag which has a metal mouth with nylon net bag attached and I waded to the tumble area of the surf where the shells etc. wash up and down and scooped up and rinsed the sand out and poured it on the dry sand. Some had like picture frames with mesh bottoms and used that. I got pretty wet even wetting my phone and camera in my cargo pockets that I had never used before and forgot about. Very lucky the pockets were above my knees and didn't get dunked, just splashed.

There are some rocks for jettys and to prevent erosion from the dunes and supposedly teeth get captured there, but as it turns out the teeth that are found laying on the sand are only found by the first people there in the morning and lots come by daily for their walk and collecting and have the eye for it and experience. Well, we did not show up early, about 10am and it was only wading and digging for me.

The water was cold but I adjusted and if my durn knees were better and I wasn't just coming off of the worst case of vertigo I've had yet, I would have stayed longer. But the point was to find the place and find a tooth and mission accomplished.

We left and went to Sharkey's at the Venice Beach Pier for lunch, barely a mile back up the Harbour Road. We shared Mango bbq Pork sandwich and half quesadilla with fries, pickle and spicy salsa/salad. We were pleased with our lunch but dinner there would be dear.

We drove through Venice which had a small shopping area similar to St. Armands Circle and through Nikomis which is small town Florida. We brought back shoes full of sand but my pants had dried. Fun had by both.