{"id":5267,"date":"2018-01-31T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:13:55","slug":"enjoying-the-weather-here-on-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5267","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the weather here on Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TampaForecast-1-30-2-8_thumb-300x274-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Tampa Forecast From 1\/30 to 2\/8\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TampaForecast-1-30-2-8_thumb-300x274-1-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"TampaForecast 1-30 - 2-8\" width=\"454\" height=\"415\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Even though EG Simmons Campground is usually full, there have been campsites available everyday so far this week. We did two short canoe trips around the bay and a couple of bike rides around the campground. If you hit every road in the camp and picnic grounds you can actually pedal about 5 to 6 miles.<\/p>\n<p>We saw this raccoon in one of the picnic areas, he acted like he was used to people feeding him and started to approach us while we sat at a picnic table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6861\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6861\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Racoon-Visitor-1024x745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Racoon-Visitor-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Racoon-Visitor-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Racoon-Visitor-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Racoon-Visitor.jpg 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a view of Tampa from the picnic area. One note about our location if the wind is coming across the bay, the wind really chills, since the water temperature is only 60<sup>o<\/sup>F.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was still a little windy but it was sunny so I mapped a 8-1\/2 mile bike route from our campground to the Apollo Beach Manatee Viewing area at a big power plant. I knew the warm water attracted the Manatees but had no idea it was so popular with both the tourists and the Manatees. There were hundreds of both. We did a little grocery shopping at the brand new Publix which is only 2 miles from our campground right at the corner of US41.<a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Manatee-Viewing_thumb-300x169-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"float: left; display: inline;\" title=\"Manatee Viewing\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Manatee-Viewing_thumb-300x169-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Manatee Viewing\" width=\"606\" height=\"340\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Manatees-Apollo-Power-Station_thumb-300x257-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Manatees Apollo Power Station\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Manatees-Apollo-Power-Station_thumb-300x257-1-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Manatees Apollo Power Station\" width=\"366\" height=\"313\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peggy-Manatees_thumb-300x145-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Peggy &amp; Manatees\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peggy-Manatees_thumb-300x145-1-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy &amp; Manatees\" width=\"954\" height=\"463\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peggy swimming with the Manatees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though EG Simmons Campground is usually full, there have been campsites available everyday so far this week. We did two short canoe trips around the bay and a couple of bike rides around the campground. If you hit every road in the camp and picnic grounds you can actually pedal about 5 to 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoying the weather here on Tampa Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1718trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","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=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6862,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions\/6862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}