Explore Quick Point Nature Preserve, Longboat Key Little Beach, + Overlook Park
Details
Bike ride, hike, explore and swim on this meetup.
Three Meetup Groups will be attending. Park and meet at Quick Point Nature Preserve.
The bike ride will start once the main tent has been set up at QPNP.
The bike ride is optional. Those not bicycling can hike QPNP or use the beach at QPNP.
Quick Point Nature Preserve is an interesting mix of mangrove estuary, tidal swamps and uplands, all being restored to natural function. Walking from the parking area at Overlook Park, you pass under a bridge and onto a short trail system that leads along stretches of Sarasota Bay.
This conjunction makes the site not only fruitful for waders such as herons and egrets, ibises and spoonbills, but also “flyovers” like ospreys, gulls and terns from the beach side. Check the boardwalk overlooks at low tide for shorebirds and peeps and stop by during spring migration season to look for warblers and flycatchers in the canopy.
We will also visit Longboat Key Little Beach and Overlook Pass.
8:00 Set up tent.
8:30 Bicycle Ride
9:30 QPNP Beach Fun
11:30 Overlook Park & Longboat Key Little Beach
12:00 Lunch - bring a sandwich, or something to eat
1:00 Beach or hiking - you decide
See you there. Please be on time. Thanks
My number is 815-814-2084 (call, then text)