After a quick stop at the local Camping World this morning we traveled up the road to Tarpon Springs, the Greek heritage sponge diving town that is now a major tourist destination, especially along the sponge dock area. Despite lots of tourist shops and excellent Greek restaurants, the docks are still a working port for the harvesting of sponges, that are apparently abundantly available for harvesting by divers not too far off shore. The sponge diving enterprise was started in 1905 by Greek immigrants familiar with sponge diving in the Greek Islands. Over the years, the area attracted more Greek immigrants and Tarpon Springs became a thriving Greek community that still exists today.
We have been here several times in the past and came back primarily to have lunch at our favorite Greek restaurant on the harbor there. Once again, we had a great meal. We shared hummus and pita for an appetizer, avgolemono soup, a Greek salad and a gyro sandwich. I even had an imported Greek beer (Pils) which was really pretty good.
After lunch and shopping a little, we headed down the road to Dunedin for ice cream at our favorite local ice cream shop, Strachen's. Again, after shopping a little, we had a Key Lime Margarita at Bon Appetit, the restaurant at the end of the wharf on the bay.
We got back to the RV around 5:00 pm. Dinner did not sound interesting tonight after all the food we ate today. More sightseeing tomorrow.
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