Bird Key Park observation

On wednesday Feb 29, 2012 I was pressed for time so I was not able to go to both Indian Beach along with Bird Key Park. But there is another reason why I did not go to Indian Beach, which was the company it brought. Lets just say that as I was done making my rounds on Indian beach, a group of characters (to be polite) that would stop talking to my friend Jenny Cherry and I. Long story short, we are both fine, but this brought me to thinking of danger to the environment. unlike most areas I have been to in Sarasota, I always find a cop car or some kind of security and I feel safe. But if and especially if you are a girl, being in a open place, quiet  area like Indian Beach. Then either make sure you are protected with pepper spray or with a group. Otherwise, anything can happen to you and no cop will be there to save you.

I have a feeling this will be the last time I go to that beach for my journals. I don't want to take the risk of bumping into those people and offering me certain items (need I say more). What I also notice about these group of characters was that they brought beer cans with them, and using the empty one on the beach, they placed it on top of some rocks. I left before I saw if they left it there or threw it away. But those are the types of people that would bring their trash to the beach and leave it out in the open.

At Bird Key Park,
There was not much of anything that was an environmental problem, besides just seeing dog owners forgetting to pick up after their dog. But I did not see any garbage or clothes floating around. I might have said this before, but the difference between Indian Beach and Bird Key Park and even Lido Beach is their location and surroundings. Around Indian beach you have run down houses, people with little money to them or renting the house and in my definition a bunch of shady characters that deal with stealing, drugs and from what I heard having one of those old house be a house where they put woman in to have sex (either on their own will or most often BY FORCE). Basically you have an area that is not safe, but is getting less attention than it should and there for, not many people care about the damage they are causing to the environment and how it looks to other people.

Then when you go to a more open and PUBLIC places like Bird Key Park, and Lido Beach. It knows that this is an area that locals and most often tourist come to, to either shop or go to the beach to swim. So it has an image to keep and make sure it meets what tourist expect to see. White sand beaches and clear water. Sure we will sometimes find plastic bottles and potato chip bags on the ground, but it is not enough to ruin the image of a public beach.

Here are some photos I took of my visit to this park

 The water was starting to get high. It once again is pass the rocks and getting to the concrete wall.

 You can see where the water was on the concrete wall, by seeing how dark it looks on the bottom compared to the dryer bricks up above.

 If you go back to my last journal, I mentioned these twigs growing from the ground. This one looks like a creepy hand coming out of the water.

 Again going back to my last journal, I wanted to check up on the new plants I saw growing. Well they are getting enough sun and water, but maybe this is too much water for them. Or maybe there are some plants that need heavy amounts of water to survive.

 Same new plants from last photo, close up

 A  view of Bird Key Park. It was a nice day on Wednesday.

 On some of the concrete wall, I saw some Seagrass (I think that is what these plants are called) growing on it. I bet in another year or so, that this wall (the parts that are under water) will be cover in green Seagrass.

 There were a lot of people with their dogs at this park. Some were having fun in the water.