{"id":35,"date":"2009-03-05T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:22:40","slug":"eg-simmons-county-park-on-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"E.G. Simmons County Park on Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_sSUH9V72TQI\/SbAxznqyzMI\/AAAAAAAAARc\/wwUIXdZygOc\/s1600-h\/PHeron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309798723561376962\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 350px; cursor: hand; height: 319px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_sSUH9V72TQI\/SbAxznqyzMI\/AAAAAAAAARc\/wwUIXdZygOc\/s400\/PHeron.jpg\" alt=\"Heron in the mangroves\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> We left Lithia at 8 AM on Sunday morning for a short drive to another Hillsborough county park, E.G. Simmons Regional Park on Tampa Bay. We stayed here last year and enjoyed our stay and since they didn&#8217;t take any reservations we figured that it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to get a site on a drizzly cool Sunday morning. We got here after grocery shopping at 9:00 AM. We were 14th on the waiting list to get in but he said that he expected at least 20 persons to check out. You can&#8217;t check-in until after 11:30 AM but at least we got a nice site that was close enough to the office to have Wi-Fi internet access.<\/p>\n<p>We signed up for three days but expect to stay until the following Sunday. A cool front had come in but it was supposed to start warming and be dry though the weekend. We biked into the town of Ruskin for shopping a few times and the temperature finally got back over 80o by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sSUH9V72TQI\/SbAykQalQSI\/AAAAAAAAARk\/2De2umfJ8VY\/s1600-h\/WStork.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309799559132954914\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 370px; cursor: hand; height: 319px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sSUH9V72TQI\/SbAykQalQSI\/AAAAAAAAARk\/2De2umfJ8VY\/s400\/WStork.jpg\" alt=\"Wood Stork\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Lithia at 8 AM on Sunday morning for a short drive to another Hillsborough county park, E.G. Simmons Regional Park on Tampa Bay. We stayed here last year and enjoyed our stay and since they didn&#8217;t take any reservations we figured that it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to get a site on a drizzly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E.G. Simmons County Park on Tampa Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-0809trip","category-fl09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}