Feb 28 - Bald Point State Park and Alligator Point peninsula, Florida Gulf coast

  Woke up to fog and grey gloom, so spent the morning doing tax returns and Peter's Blog.  After lunch, the weather improved, so we drove out to Ochlockonee Bay  off the FL Gulf Coast.  Saw a cute little deer on the way out of the campgrounds.  Really neat bridge over the bay to the peninsula.  Just across the bridge was a boat ramp, which also had a really interesting trail running along the shore--so we explored it.
  Then we continued on to the Bald Point State Park at the very tip of the peninsula.  It had two eco systems--a salt marsh and a lot of beach coastline on the Gulf of Mexico.  On the boardwalk out onto the salt marsh, we met a young couple.  We started chatting, since they asked us if we owned the car with the MA plates. Turns out they lived in Cambridge for 10 years, he doing programming.  As we spoke, Peter asked what kind of programming, and he said he had developed a solitaire online game, and we said, oh, like World of Solitaire.  And he bowed a bit and said that is his design and game.  Turns out he developed and set it all up and still owns it.  Once he added Google ads to it, he was able to retire at at a very early age.  He said they had never met anyone who actually uses his game, even though they have had 9 billion hands played.  Interesting folks. 
  Then we walked over to the beach access, and found sandbars with over 50 birds just standing there. Most of them were big pelicans.  Long, long stretches of beautiful white sand beaches.  Unfortunately, not hot enough to swim.  But we did see fish jumping out of the water--two or three times in a row.
  Had dinner at a nice restaurant overlooking the bay. 

Ochlockonee Bay shore photos:

Bold Point State Park Salt Marsh photos:

Bald Point State  beach photos: