Above is a view of downtown Tampa from the water. This was my 2nd trip across the bay on the Cross Bay ferry. My first was back in 2019 when my sisters were visiting.  Since my sister and her husband were visiting in late February we decided to do it again. This time we started in Tampa since the Indy Grand Prix race was going on in St. Pete and we wouldn’t be able to park anywhere nearby there.

Passing by the cruise ships.

Red was the color of the day. I guess it’s so you can see the boats better, in case you can’t see those big guys on the water.

Picking up the pace as we head out into the open bay. Tampa was far behind us.

As we approached St. Pete we went farther south and came in south of downtown, on the other side of the airport. We docked near the Florida Fish & Wildlife docks and as we got off the boat we could hear the cars from the race loudly buzzing around the track (since it was Friday they were practicing but boy was it loud).

We only had about 30 minutes to walk around before our boat left to go back so we just walked around the marina area where we docked.

The sun was just starting to go down as we made our way back to Tampa.

Passing a tugboat before getting into Tampa.

We got back just as the sun was going down (Tampa General hospital is on the left). It was a beautiful late afternoon on the water and the tickets are a great price to be out on the water for a few hours. The ferry only runs in the winter here and then goes back up north for the summer. I need to make more of an effort to get out and do more tourist type things like this in the winter.