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| max77056 | #51 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:09/19/2005 01:02:58Copy HTML |
| thongbutt1 | #52 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:09/24/2005 06:26:24Copy HTML |
| JM_Runs | #53 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:09/26/2005 10:40:28Copy HTML Link to news letter that includes a long bit about the move to make a section "East of East Beach" a nudist beach. http://www.sffb.com/pdfs/sd_fall05web.pdf And here is a link of the preposal from TAN. I hope that board members in the Tampa region are members of that group too. |
| beachfolks | #54 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/07/2005 01:22:21Copy HTML After a morning rain the beach was great this afternoon. One warning though, the mosquitos are bad on the trail going in. You can either weaR LOTS OF "OFF" OR PREFERRABLY WALK IN VIA THE MAIN BEACH.
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| beachfolks | #55 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/09/2005 10:25:41Copy HTML This afternoon we walked to the far north end of North beach where the "island" used to be-the beach has really changed. I tanned all afternoon in my micro "Baggie",Wife in her string. There were lots of bathers, only a few other thongers around, I walked the entire north shore but no comments about my micro-micro attire. The sun was overcast but still OK for tanning. Another great afternoon at the fort.
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| bobo2112 | #56 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/10/2005 03:11:17Copy HTML Beachfolks, Were you wife your wife when you took a walk? Do you find other thongers usually say hello to you when you go for a walk in your micro? Also, you mentioned a few other thongers. How many male vs. female? I love the Fort! |
| beachfolks | #57 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/10/2005 12:25:58Copy HTML Sunday-One walk with wife, one walk sans wife. Most thongers were male, not very many friendlies at the north end. The female thongers were mostly making out with their man. Today on the south side, not many friendlies and no regulars either. Probably not 20 people at any time. I walked the entire south end of the beach alone. It varies.
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| kread54 | #58 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/21/2005 02:21:45Copy HTML |
| thongbutt1 | #59 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:10/22/2005 01:00:06Copy HTML |
| beachfolks | #60 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:11/12/2005 09:16:36Copy HTML The bugs are gone now you can walk out to the beach with no bites. Today was great at 82deg, a little cool in the water, but nice after you get used to it. half a dozen bare couples this afternoon, another half dozen single men in micro-suits there too. Good friendly people at the beach.
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| beachfolks | #61 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:11/19/2005 12:15:18Copy HTML Kread- Your question about your wife's see-thru swimsuits- My black baggie suit is mesh, and micro-micro, very see thru up close, but black at a distance and seems to pass OK with the rangers and Pinellas Sheriff. We see several women wear the WW sheer suits at DeSoto, do not get a second look by the patrol. My feeling is your wife will have no difficulty at DeSoto.
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| Maxtlatl | #62 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:11/19/2005 09:43:16Copy HTML On 9/26 JM_Runs noted that the Tampa Area Naturists
decided on the "East of East Beach" location to try to establish a nude beach. (His message also includes a link to their proposal.) Has anybody been there to try it out (either thonged or nude)? Any word on visitation by rangers? Thanks. |
| bobo2112 | #63 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:11/20/2005 10:58:39Copy HTML |
| sailor250 | #64 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:12/02/2005 10:07:53Copy HTML Tell us how you get the rangers to know you're wearing a pouch suit! I've seen rangers scoping out g strings and looking for waist bands on beaches everywhere, just to make sure everyone's wearing something. Do you purposely turn your front to passersby to show them you're not nude? |
| beachfolks | #65 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:12/04/2005 09:18:29Copy HTML Sailor- Sometimes a ranger wil drive around you to see if you have a suit on. I usually turn toward the ranger(If I'm awake when he comes around)
This weekend was one of those beautiful cool, but fully sunny weekends. Not a cloud saturday and Sunday-great for tanning. Plenty of friendly and familiar thonging and nude couples and the usual crowd of single male nudies too. Just a fun weekend at DeSoto. The rangers did not show either day and we were on the beach most all day. |
| beachfolks | #66 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:12/15/2005 09:43:07Copy HTML Today was a cold and windy day, but sunny and nice if you got into some wind protection. We walked onto DeSoto in the AM to find the Fla Dept of tourism filming midway down the south half of North Beach. While they were paused, we walked up into the treeline at mid-beach and spent most of the day sunning comfortably in a white sandy area with no visitors or rangers all day.
We saw some shellers back midway on the beach after the filming, but no one walked up to where we were camped until about 3PM when we were about to leave. What a nice day, but tomorrow is colder-far too cold to be on the beach. |
| Beachbroad1975b | #67 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:12/29/2005 10:46:21Copy HTML Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! Looks like the weather is getting a little nicer around here. I was hoping to get back out to the beaches but it has been rather cold lately. I was dreaming of being out on the beach yesterday when I was stuck at the office. Hope to either get down to the Fort or up to Anclote Key this coming week. Has anyone been there lately? I haven't been to the beaches in a while with all the holiday stuff and travel going on. Well, hope everyone has a happy and safe new year! T! |
| sarasotajt | #68 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:12/30/2005 12:24:26Copy HTML Since moving back south to Sarasota from the Tampa area early last year, I haven't been out to the fort in quite some time. Question: Has anyone ever walked about the historic fort itself wearing only their thong? I mean, it's right next to the beach, but walking up the stairs and amongst other visitors would take a little more nerve than walking along a sparsely populated beach. sarasotajt |
| Beachlover492000 | #69 |
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| JM_Runs | #70 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/03/2006 08:01:54Copy HTML Beachlover492000 may well be right. The DeSoto is one of the few places left along the West cost of Florida, where thongs are accepted in a very public place. If you go pushing the limits, like getting in the red necks faces while wearing transparent suits, you could add to friction that makes some one with authority "do something". On the other hand.... my normal attitude is that thongs should not be getoized. We should be able to thong everywhere. On my beach we don't have a thong zone: You just thong anywhere. BUT, the Fort is a bit of a conundrum. There is a movement by some local nudists to make part of the public beach a nude beach. I support that movement. To get there, you some times have to walk with a light tread. The nudists are saying that if they get a nude section of beach, the nude and existing users could co-exist with out problems. I think that's true. But to get to there, they need to show that the less covered crowd, that's us thongers and the nudists, don't upset the apple cart. I think it helps us in the long run to have public nude beaches. Once established 'officially' they tend to stay. I think we should hold our breath and pray, or even better join the nude beach movement. All the time understanding that tact and diplomacy are the only weapons on our side. It will take time, we may have to wait for a Democrat in the Governors House before it comes about. So lets not push the issue around the Fort, not for our sake, but for the nudists sake. Because, in the long run their success will greatly benefit us. |
| beachfolks | #71 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/03/2006 08:58:07Copy HTML JM amd 49
I haven't walked in the fort site recently, but have been there many times and for long periods of time, also in the concession stand, and always with my string-back and my cotton gauze split-to-the-waist coverup. No big deal. 49-Lets do it in thongs sometime, but when the sun gets warmer. Today was a great day at the Fort. JM-I'm a committed rep, think it's more the man than the party. I agree the Dems are usually much more thong friendly, We have some real red-neck Reps, but make the point that the long term Rep goals of less govt are a lot better (if we survive to the long term) |
| beachfolks | #72 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/04/2006 09:39:47Copy HTML Today was warmer than anticipated, good sun all day. There was a fair turnout, but wern't many thongers on the beach near the fort, just a few young women in thongs with kids.
I haven't recently seen many extremly bare women off the beach, but some time ago I did see women inline skating in thir wicked weasel suits. Most of the bare ones though are locals during the summer. To try out your theory, I walked all around the fort in my new Skinz black narrow front thong. It's modest, but doesn't leave much to the imagination. I didn't raise an eybrow, not a single comment from the other Fort visitors. |
| bobo2112 | #73 |
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| beachfolks | #74 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/05/2006 11:00:54Copy HTML sarasotajt, 49 and JM-
Today I repeated my walk around and over(on the top walkway) the historic Fort in my Skinz narrrow front thong, taking time to read all the historical info plaques etc,(which seem to be disappearing with time). Also I had a friendly talk with the bike rental guy just North of the Fort. I'm sure he has seen all sorts of swimsuits. So far no coments on my thong attire or even whispered second looks(while I was around). I had forgotten the fantastic view off the North Staircase which made the walks worthwhile. You are being too concerned. beyond a point of decency, most people don't really give a damn what others wear, only a few rednecks and busybodies are really very concerned. My theory is that we should be more open to wear thong suits in public to make people aware and accepting of thongs. This is not to say that we should be wearing our micro-micro display suits in public, but the more modest thongs are certainly OK. |
| jordonl_1999 | #75 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/05/2006 01:22:25Copy HTML The general public is already fully aware of thongs. I don't think that alone is a good reason.
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| sarasotajt | #76 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/06/2006 02:31:25Copy HTML I feel like I've been playing "truth or dare" and I dared you to do something. That was not my intention so please don't everyone else get mad at me. Conservative thong or not, I don't know if I'd ever have the nerve to wear it anywhere other than on the beach at Ft. Desoto county park. I've never seen any girls rollerblading in bikinis, much less thongs or WW suits. That must be an awe inspiring sight! sarasotajt |
| beachfolks | #77 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/06/2006 11:05:21Copy HTML Sarasota-
Please note I did not wear a "baggie" microsuit to the Fort, I put the Skinz thong over it to visit the Fort-so it's no big deal. There are lots more people wearing thongs at DeSoto than you imagine. Most of the thongs are the conservative variety sold at the beach stores and sold and worn by young people. Just go to Skinz or any one of the StPete beach stores and look at how many thongs you see. They don't stock what they don't sell and people don't buy much of what they don't wear, at least occasionally. You see more thongs off the beach in the summer. |
| jordonl_1999 | #78 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/19/2006 06:11:15Copy HTML At my military base here in the Northeast, we've got an office of welfare & recreation. Outside that office is a rack of brochures from places to go and things to do (looks like the typical rack you see at hotels).
Wouldn't you know it, but there were three stacks of Fort DeSoto brochures. No mention of thongs or nudity, of course, but I thought it was interesting to see them anyway.. lol |
| beachfolks | #79 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/20/2006 08:42:34Copy HTML Best weather at DeSoto this year today. Lots of sun and near 80 deg. a dozen or so thongers out today (Friday) and one woman skating on the path in her WW top and shorts. Unfortunately the flies are out and biting all along the south part of North beach these past 2 days. I expect the flies will only last a week or so, but we're going to Pass-a-Grille beach till it passes over.
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| beachfolks | #80 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:01/22/2006 08:45:47Copy HTML Sunday we tried DeSoto again-Great 80 deg beach weather, but the flies were biting and generally bad, some mosquitos in the parking area. Lots of thonging and nude couples there today south of the main beach across the inlet.
We'll try Pass-a-grille for a while until this crop of insects dies off. |
| beachfolks | #81 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/12/2006 07:05:18Copy HTML The good news is that the rain and cold seems to have stopped the bugs. We had several great sunny days last week if you could find a spot out of the high wind.
The other news is that DeSoto has a new ambitious vendor at the gift shop and hotdog stands. This vendor is the same as at John U.LLoyd park near Dania and Hollywood. The StPete local news says that he is proposing to the park board to put a large 200+ seat upscale restaurant into the existing underused facility and is now building an off sale store at the pier entrance by the fort. Although the St Pete paper says talks are ongoing, it must be approved, because there is already a delivery of pilings and constriction start near the pier. Something also doesn't make sense because beer is prohibited in the park yet the off-sale is proposed to sell beer. I can't see how this can be good news, butchanges are certainly coming. Does anyone know about the succcess of the vendor at John U.Lloyd park in Dania/Hollywood? |
| JM_Runs | #82 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/12/2006 12:26:36Copy HTML I don't know about the vendor, but the John U.Lloyd park in Dania/Hollywood is anti thong. They have been cracking down on gay men and thongs for several years. See posts about the park. http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=466646&CategoryID=172935&startcat=101&ThreadID=1225837 |
| beachfolks | #83 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/13/2006 11:19:28Copy HTML Thanks for the info JM. Not good.
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| Beachbroad1975b | #84 |
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| grnngold93 | #85 |
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| briankay | #86 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/21/2006 08:24:02Copy HTML grnngold93 wrote Pinellas County turned down any changes to Fort Desoto's gift shop and snack bar When did this happen? Several days ago, there was a link on the DeSoto page to a diagram of proposed changes. Now I don't see it. Maybe I'm overlooking it. Otherwise, I can conclude Pinellas Co works quickly on keeping their web pages up to date. It would actually help the Fort if we could get a lifeguard and have it similar to South Beach. What standards are applied in determining if there will be a life guard? Are there guards at any Pinellas County locations? All I know is none at DeSoto or Madeira Beach Access... the only two Pinellas Co locations I've been to. Yet (some distance away, of course) there are guards at N Lido and Siesta Key. |
| grnngold93 | #87 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/22/2006 06:19:13Copy HTML The Pinellas County Commission voted it down last night. It is in both the Tampa Tribune ans St. Pete times today. Most people opposed having the upgrades done. That's probably good for us. As for Lifeguards, the Fort has them both at Noth Beach and what I refer to as south beach. It is the beach overlooking the Skyway Bridge. Ifyou ever get out to our area around 8:30 to 9:00 am they run through our area for training. The advantage to having them would only be if the women could continue topless and the men in thongs. You would have a presence that could stop the sexual activity and the perversion by certain people. We are hoping to get out there in a couple of weeks if the weather will warm up. Seems like the nice weather is during the week right now and more in the afternoon. With 2 kids in school we can't go during the week.
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| briankay | #88 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/22/2006 07:41:36Copy HTML grnngold93 wrote As for Lifeguards, the Fort has them both at Noth Beach and what I refer to as south beach. I didn't know that. Both times I went there, I turned right at the T, then followed the curve to the right, and then parked in the gravel area just past the concession building. So I missed the guards as it sounds like ther are none where I was. I like beaches that have guards around. |
| beachfolks | #89 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/25/2006 11:51:24Copy HTML Some unexpected good sunshine today at the Fort 2/25, A big crowd at the fort for civil war re-enactments, and the First woman wearing a WW while Skating of this spring season. There were several other women wearing WW suits on the beach and lots of other thongers near the North beach trees. When there is a big crowd of local people, the thongs come out.
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| Ex_Member | #90 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/28/2006 08:57:28Copy HTML I'm thinking about taking a short road trip out to Fort Desoto beach this weekend. It's going to be Sunny and 75 degrees, and I want to go somewhere different. Playalinda is fun and all, but sometimes you want just a regular beach w/o all the nudists. The rest of Brevard is anti-thong, and South Beach is too far for a day trip. Where's the best thong part of the beach - to see and be seen? and how do I get there?
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| beachfolks | #91 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:02/28/2006 09:58:57Copy HTML Cyber-Saturday weather is showing great, but Sunday is showing partly cloudy at 10%, so a little bit chancy, but you can't win em all.
Take the last St Petersburg exit from 275 before the Skyway. Continue on the Pinellas Bayway thru the tollgate (Free if you have Sunpass-50cents if you don't tell them you are from Brevard) until the left turn and signs to DeSoto-hwy 679. Continue through another 35C toll into DeSoto.-Your Sunpass works here too. Turn right at the big flagpole toward the fort but continue beyond the Fort. Park on the left side of the road near the garbage can and bushes 2/3 of the distance to the North Beach parking lot-(There will be several of cars). Walk down to the beach and turn to your right and you will see mostly thonged people, occasionally topless or nude, and gstrings all along the way to the treed inlet area which ends the south part of the beach. Those to the left and closer to the fort are usually, but not always more thong-deprived. Some of us walk this entire stretch of beach from the Fort to the trees and inlet in our thongs and gstrings. Today near the camping area there were 2 women pedaling one of the rental sitdown bikes in little g-string swimsuits. We are otherwise occupied Sat, but will be there Sunday unless the weather gets bad. You will find the beachgoers quite thong friendly. Have fun |
| Gstringing | #92 |
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| grnngold93 | #93 |
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| beachfolks | #94 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/07/2006 08:26:19Copy HTML The Fort has been particularly busy this last weekend, The regulars are there most weekends and the foot traffic is high now. Yes we had one complaint, but not so many as expected.ReaLLY NICE WEATHER.
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| beachfolks | #95 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/11/2006 09:28:34Copy HTML The weather continues to cooperate-Good beach weather this weekend-in the 80s- and lots of people out, both local and tourists. The thonging population continues to hold their own too, mostly by the treed area just south of the "North Beach" inlet. Today there were thongers scattered along the beach 1/4 of the way down the beach to the Fort.
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| sundood | #96 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/11/2006 11:25:58Copy HTML Hey everyone...need a little help here, please! I just read a post on the Madeira Beach thread where the poster indicated that Madeira Beach isn't what it used to be and went on to say he never had a good experience at The Fort either. Well, I'm planning a trip to The Fort based on all the good things I've read on this board. I'm coming from Texas and plan on killing a couple of weeks in South Florida. This poster indicated every time he had been to Ft. DeSoto he had seen 'fat old men in thongs hanging out in the dunes doing God knows what' and had seen very few ladies there. Now, I'm not usually concerned over who's thonging around me but that report just didn't leave a very good image in my mind. So, should I skip the Fort and just go on to Ft. Lauderdale and South Beach or do you think this guy was just there on 'off' days? He seemed pretty disappointed in the whole scene. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
| beachfolks | #97 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/12/2006 01:00:55Copy HTML Sundood-Yes, If you look for it you will find it. In all the years we have been going to the fort no one has bothered us. Of course a lot of us are overweight and don't look so good. Others are skinny and don't look too good either. We don't pass a test before going to the Fort.
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| sundood | #98 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/12/2006 01:22:49Copy HTML Beachfolks...Thanks! I'm sorry if I sounded like I was trying to qualify everyone's physical appearance...that's certainly not the case. Lord knows I'm no prime speciman! I was more concerned about the 'lurking in the dunes doing God knows what' part of it. That type of environment doesn't sound very appealing to me. Thanks again! Hope to see you there!
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| grnngold93 | #99 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/12/2006 03:02:10Copy HTML SUNDOOD - The Fort is great. It appears you are looking for something in particular. Not sure what that is. If you are thinking this is like SoBe you are crazy. The super models have not found us yet. If you are single looking to stare at women on the beach we don't want you either. If you are an exhibitionist, we are not cool with that. If you are looking for somewhere that you can wear a small thong swimsuit, enjoy a beautiful beach, meet nice people, and do it without hassle then the Fort may be for you. The regulars do a pretty good job of policing the area and if say something to those that could ruin it for all the rest. If we allow the perverts to take over then we know we will lose our gorgeous beach with our current freedoms. We can see that the Park is making changes to try and deter the freaks out there. We want to maintain a beautiful restfull beach for the nature goers. All we can say is come enjoy our beach. Just respect the common sense rules and do not try and ruin it for those that are able to go out all the time. For someone to come into town, get their jolly's, and then go home without out any thought of what may happen after the leave is wrong. We do not want a ranger checking on us every 30 minutes are coming up through the dunes. We like it the way it is. keep it clean, come enjoy, and we will make sure it's the same the next time you get a chance to visit.
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| beachfolks | #100 |
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Re:Fort De Soto Beach Date Posted:03/12/2006 09:42:36Copy HTML After another great day at the Fort, Its a good time to start a new Fort DeSoto thread. The other is getting too long for us 56K guys.
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