INTJohn’s Winter ‘24-‘25 Van Livn

[INTJohn]

1 March, ‘25 Somewhere near Palm Harbor, Fla

After a week in the Bonita Springs/Fort Myers Beach area was time to move on in a northerly direction to my hang north of Clearwater/Tampa.

I’ll be here thru this weekend maybe abit longer then will continue north around Florida’s Big Bend to St George’s Island. I’m determined to spend a few days there and temps are adequate warm.

In the meantime enjoying the great beach & temp scene on this part of the Gulf of “Murahka”
(krax me up)

bch bum jonny livin the dream

 

[INTJohn]

Spent a week at Lovers Key. They have really changed that beach completely with the post hurricane reconstruction and in the process completely recked the shell finding. Hopefully it will improve after a couple storms later this year.

They pumped a planets worth of Gulf of Murahka bottom from about a mile offshore to “rebuild” the beach. It is about 200 yards wide now for over a mile - I kid you not. 39 million dollars and it will all be washed who knows where when the next couple hurricanes hit. A waste of money.
https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/g...ourish-lovers-key-and-bonita-beach-shoreline/

Have spent last 3 days at Honeymoon and there are big changes here too. The hurricane cut that was mild after Ian can no longer be waded and is 2 hundred yards wide post Helene & Milton. I would swim it with a life jacket tho.


Got good beach walks; found nothing interesting but did get shark bit…….

bch bum jon livin the dream

EDIT: have a sunset pik…….

 

[INTJohn]

and today while on my all day drive from Dunedin to St George’s Island; somewhere around the St Marks Wilderness Area / Econfina River State Park on Hiway 98; I find a 100 watt solar panel that blew off someone’s vehicle during last night’s or early this morning high wind thunderstorms that moved across North Florida.


It doesn’t seem to have been anchored down very well to begin with.


Looks to be in decent shape for going airborne and impacting the side of a ditch.

Specs on back of panel.

it was missing a wire so was interested in what the insides looked like and not only was I able to remove the plastic cover without breaking it; but the gasket is nicely intact and the internal connections are intact so only need to connect a wire.

bch bum jonny road scavenger