Last weekend, Doug and I took the kids to the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach. It’s a facility adjacent to and operated by a power plant. Manatees like the warm water that comes off the power plant, especially during the winter months when the rest of the gulf and bay are too cold for these aquatic mammals. We saw a few swimming around, but were a little disappointed because the manatees were so far away from the viewing deck that all we could see was a fin here and a fin there.
There’s also a walkway through some mangroves, a dense shrubbery type plant that grows along the beaches in some places. At the end of the mangroves, there was a sandy beach area, covered in tiny crabs. Here. Check it out.
It was fun to watch them do their cool sideways walk from the water to the mangroves. There were hundreds of these little guys.
After running down the pier at the viewing center, we took the kids to Steak n Shake. They have good burgers and of course milkshakes, served in a diner setting. The boys loved the milkshakes the best.
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