Tarpon Springs

We took an afternoon bike ride up to Tarpon Springs. The shot above is from the Pinellas Trail, just past Toula's Trailside Cafe, looking south. The trail follows the old train tracks that used to run down the middle of the street. It makes for a great bike trail.

We got over an inch and a half of rain starting at 1:00 this morning and ending at 9:00 a.m. Perfect for early morning work. There were lots of impromptu ponds on our walk to the causeway and back later this morning.

 

You can see the clouds clearing in the picture above, looking south from the causeway to Clearwater.

 

This is the traffic circle at the end of the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs. You can see that most of the clouds are gone, nothing but beautiful, blue skies. The temperature on this morning's walk was 70 degrees. By 2:00, the temperature was 76, winds blowing between 10 and 14 mph.

Not a lot of activity at the docks. There were a few clumps of people, but many things were shut down.

We stopped off at the Dunn Reservoir to get some chilled and filtered water.

It appears that Florida will begin opening back up on Monday. I'm going to sit it out for at least another two weeks and see if there's a spike in infections. I read about a man who was hospitalized and tested positive and rapidly recovered and was symptom free for 40 days, but kept testing positive. Luckily, the hospital wouldn't dismiss him until he tested negative for two days in a row. Experts say this is very rare, I should add--like 1-2% of cases. However, it makes you wonder how many asymptomatic folks are walking around infecting others without knowing it.

There's plenty of work to do at home, anyway. This coming week marks the end of the semester. Semester horribillus.

We walked 16.4 miles and biked 22.1.