Swimming in Tampa Bay
I remember going to the beach- they called it
the Causeway- the bridge to St. Petersburg across the Tampa Bay area I think-just a pit stop on
the side of the road where a lot of people would go swinning, but one had to
wear their shoes to go into the water because of all the blocks of cement in the
water, well at low tide one could walk well out into the water- way out- my
sister Theresa and I just kept on walking out and we just stood there and looked
towards the beach area and could see our dad just waving his arms like a wild
man,we just thought it funny, this is until I saw the horrified look on my
sisters face, we were about 4 or 5 feet away from each other and she had turned
white-well I found out why, just as the fin swam between the 2 of us- now this
is when my sister totally freeked,she started going as fast as she could towards
the shore,but guess I sorta froze- I remember someone saying one should just
stand still and not move and tried to tell my sister this but off she went and
the stupid fish just hung out next to me- totally frozen in place until all of a
sudden this thing looked out of the water at me and then I knew I would live- it
was a dolphin- Thank God- ....Peggy McSwain