Looking for Sharks Teeth at Englewood

Our next adventure March 22, 2009 took us to Englewood Beach. It was another wonderful well protected anchorage. Again, one of the things we found was the water along the coast of the GIWW (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) was shallow. You have to be very careful and follow the channel or else you'll be in mud. Well, we found the anchorage and dropped the hook and headed into shore for more exploration.

Englewood Beach is a small strip of land, maybe two large city blocks wide that divide the Gulf from the Intracoastal. This place reminded us of Key West, many of the cottages were very colorful and decorative. Unfortunately, almost every house had either a 'for rent' or 'for sale' or both signs posted. It was definitely a sign of bad economic times.

A fellow cruiser had told us there were shark teeth to be found all over Englewood beach. So, we headed out with our baggies on a mission. It was kind of cute because we both turned to one another and asked, ' do you know what shark teeth look like?' Neither one of us could find any shark teeth. Well, lo and behold, along comes a man walking on the beach and starts up a conversation which included, 'Did you find any shark teeth?' Upon telling him "no" he produced three of them and said to Elle, "Enjoy" as he slipped them into her hand.

Continuing on the beach we found it was loaded with all kinds of shells. Hopefully Elle will be producing something with the many we gathered.

Back on the Summer Wind we enjoyed the evening and left the next morning for Sarasota which we will continue the next time.