Kestrachern

Every other Friday Miss McTastic gets the day off and we’ve decided to use that time to explore one of the more remote areas of Tampa Bay. So this past Friday Miss McTastic and I headed up to Tarpon Springs and found out that in Tarpon Springs its all about the sponges.

While we biked about a little we spent an equal amount of time on our feet on the area of the old Sponge docks. In the late 1940′s a red tide killed off most of the sponges in addition to massive quantities of other sea life. It has only been in the last ten years or so that the sponge harvest has returned to the pre red tide levels.

There is a long history of Greek culture in Tarpon Springs and the city is said to have one of the largest US Greek population. It was an interesting experience. There is even a store that proudly advertises Fisher Price toys with Greek! It was quite immersive. You could walk down the street and hear the greek language spoken and it was common to see people having the traditional Greek complexion and characteristics.

We stopped for lunch at Mykonos. Simply the best Greek food I have had (and not yet having been to Greece)

The remainder of the weekend was spent cleaning up Chez Kitteh and working on posting content. Both of which slipped past with out photo documentation

As for the week ahead I’m hoping to get some substitute teaching positions and keep working on content creation. Wahoo!!!