Who knew that Tampa is a bunch of islands? I guess I never did. You can kind of see them from the above picture taken from an office building downtown. As a result of this spread, you drive over water half the time you are there. Just watch out not to take 275 the wrong way....
Then you have to drive for about 20 minutes over water and no exits... about 7 miles away. However, the drive is beautiful. I really enjoyed Tampa as it seems to me to be the Hawaii of continental America. For two reasons: 1) the tropical weather and plants like the one below...
... and 2) because of Clearwater beach that reminded me of Kailua beach so much. The sand is just as white, sugary, and soft (just the water is not as clean).
I like the last picture a lot because it shows how white the sand is with my white towel and also what I was doing there. At sunset, a lot of people came to fish and enjoy the view...
...and these big birds came in to eat the fish remnants that people would give them. It was all beautiful.
I didn't see anything architecturally interesting but what I noticed is that people love to write on their cars. Here are some examples that I captured :-)
Talking of cars... the radio stations were really really bad and they played the same music over and over. I need the car rental companies to have a radio station guide. Another very annoying thing that kept on happening is that the car thought that there was someone sitting in my passenger seat and it was constantly beeping for them to put the seat belt on but it was only my (very heavy) purse :-(
How can you fix that cars?
PS: no BP oil spill had reached Tampa when I was there and I don't think it ever did because of a current that pushes waters away from the bay. That is cool!
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