This state park offers hiking trails, camping, fishing and biking.  The scenery was beautiful with shady live oak/palm hammocks, sandy pine flatwoods and sunny dry prairies. One of the hikes was called Deep Hole Trail.  Only 30 people were allowed to visit per day.  We visited and were amazed at the alligators and beautiful scenery.  

Night Kayak in Siesta Key

We went out with 5 other people and a guide.  The kayaks were see through and lit with LEP lights to see under the water.  We saw stone crab, hermit crab, needlefish, conch, whittling snails and spider crab.  We had nets to scoop out creatures from the water.  The creatures were saved in buckets to observe when we returned to land.  Funny part of the evening was when Todd caught a needlefish and it bounced all over the boat. All of the creatures were returned to the water at the end of the night.