Wild Beach at Emerson Point Palmetto

We are at Emerson Point Park in the sleepy town of Palmetto, Florida way out at the West end of Snead Island. Here the Manatee River joins the saltwater of Tampa Bay as it goes into the Gulf of Mexico. The beaches here are wild with small bits of white sand and Mangrove and Seagrape trees growing right near the water. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is off in the distance.