Little Manatee River State Park

By now you know that we spend two weeks in Bonita Springs and two weeks on the road. Well it's time for our road trip again. Our first stop and only for one night is Little Manatee River State Park which became park of the state park system in 1974. Little Manatee is north of Bradenton off Hwy 301. It is a 2,433 acres state park full of wonderful hiking trails and the beautiful Little Manatee River to paddle on.

Front Entrance

It's not a large state park by Florida State Park standards but it does have 31 sites in total, 27 are considered family campsites and 4 are designated as equesterian. The family sites are sandy with excellent 30/50 amp service and water. Our site #11 was easy in/out and I didn't have to unhook for the one night stay. No sewer hookup but a dump station on the way out.

Site # 11

After we got all set up for the night we decided to explore on our tandem bike. The bike takes a while to get use to plus some good(excellent) communication skills. You can tell it's not a typical Florida winter day by the way Susan is dressed.

  

Little Manatee River

Washrooms

Before we left the following morning I went out birding for a couple of hours. Didn't see much but was able to capture a plumb Gray Catbird singing away.

Gray Catbird