Sunday, April 11, 2021

Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Island

 Continuing on as your Florida travel guide.....


Our family has gone to Honeymoon Island many times and love it.  The admission is only $4 a person or a carload for $8 there are bathrooms and a restaurant you can even rent umbrellas. It's very nice.  There are trails for walking and miles of beaches.  Read about HONEYMOON ISLAND  Caladesi Island is off its coast and only accessible by boat.  There's a ferry that runs from Honeymoon Island to Caladesi Island and it's only $16 a person.  Read about Caladesi Island  We've been there a few times but a few weeks ago Jon and I were able to work things out so we could go together and we had a wonderful day.  The 20 minute ride over is fantastic we saw dolphins and really enjoyed it both going out and coming back.  There's a restaurant and small store on the island but we brought our own sandwiches fresh from Publix! So after we got there we found a picnic table and ate because we were starving.  















We are Floridians so the water was wayyyyyy too cold for us.  We could barely stand to put our feet in the water but it will warm up soon.  We just wanted to walk and I wanted to take pictures.  It was absolutely a gorgeous day!  It's so rare that we get to go somewhere together with no kids so we felt foot loose and fancy free (at least for 4 or 5 hours lol)  You probably can't relate but just leaving our house with our little people is hard and time consuming.  Taking them to the beach is something we do but it is so much hard work.  So to just go and not have anything to carry but my phone was very nice!  It was relaxing for us and we are going to try and do something once a month this summer.  That's our goal at least!



I never get tired of the beach.






No crowds here we walked for miles





















Still no kids:)




















So this is a great place to spend a day or two if you come to Florida and see the REAL Florida!  There are no hotels on either island or camping but there's a few hotels in Dunedin which is just a few minutes drive.  You'll thank me for this recommendation!