{"id":46607,"date":"2025-02-16T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46607"},"modified":"2025-02-16T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:32:12","slug":"46607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46607","title":{"rendered":"Alafia River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46613 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3231-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s sail is very pleasant: 8 of us, great company, with great weather. We left from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46619\">Litter Harbor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46274\">Beer Can Island<\/a> was ravaged by the storm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DateStamper_2289-scaled.jpg\">many tress are down<\/a> and all the structures were wiped out, except the swing.<\/p>\n<p>The three owners paused their plan to make it time share (?), like $1,000 per share.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are boats and one hot dog boat is around too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#Beercanisland #2025\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLSoXQzIPfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We visit Sunken Island, sailed on Alafia River: a 25 miles (40 km) long river, with a watershed of 335 square miles (870 km2) that flows into Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3183-scaled.jpg\">People fishing<\/a> from the bridge 41\/45 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=93836\">The River&#8217;s Edge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DateStamper_2289-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DateStamper_2289-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3183-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3183-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3165-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3165-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alafia_River\">wiki<\/a>: &#8230; The watershed contains ten named lakes and ponds, and 29 named rivers, streams and canals. During the rainy season, excess water is pumped to the new C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir, which opened in 2005. The river is formed by two prongs. The north prong starts south of Mulberry and runs for 23.9 miles until it meets the south prong in Lithia. The south prong begins south of Bradley Junction and continues for 28.7 miles. The combined river then flows 24.7 miles west into Tampa Bay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see dolphins; a few boats with Trump&#8217;s name on it; rainbows; pelicans,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lunch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=93836\">the River&#8217;s Edge<\/a> is fine.<\/p>\n<p>A lonesome pelican at the dock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3246-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3246-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3206-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3206-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3247-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AlafiaRiver #tampa\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aKfcNM-4cI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s sail is very pleasant: 8 of us, great company, with great weather. We left from Litter Harbor. The Beer Can Island was ravaged by the storm, many tress are down and all the structures were wiped out, except the swing. The three owners paused their plan to make it time share (?), like $1,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}