I Kayaked to a State Park Island in the Ocean!

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[@mimicarlin4243]

Thanks for the shark votes, everyone!! She refused to believe me the entire trip 😑

[@TheOaksHeart2024]

I say it was a shark for sure.

[@LukeAndersson1]

That was a shark, you could tell by the back fin moving side to side rather than up and down. Totally a shark. Cool!

[@jeffmckenna6920]

Really enjoyed this! I lived at Clearwater Beach for 7 years. I miss the sunsets and live music at Palm Pavilion. Caladesi is great as well, the beach side is untouched paradise. Thanks!!!

[@bsfishing7073]

Crazy I see you going to my local store I shop there at the same Walmart and I lived on my boat in the middle of Clearwater beach marina I shop at the Walgreens in the video I just love watching your video

[@maxrun934]

Ok. Mission accomplished......ate the grouper sandwich at French's rockaway ...... Thanks for all you do. , showing new places and trips.

[@irelage7646]

Kelly I bought a Cresent Ultralight. Your videos are inspiring. Would you do a video of your setup both kayak and camping? You are a gifted videographer and editor.

[@user-David-Alan]

You are becoming a Florida girl! All tan and enjoying the great outdoors. Three things I want to remind you of when kayaking. I know it's like having another dad. Always have a life jacket with you, have a whistle, and check the tides before you go up in the mangroves. I know people that went in and got stuck because to tide went out. They had to wait 8 hours before the water got deep enough to come back out. The beach at night is awesome. Hope you had fun and yes, a shark.

[@kellyhays23]

These are great things to remember. Always appreciate your comments and advise David!

[@SalPane1224]

Wow very exciting night ,the food 👌

[@SpacePunk1000]

That sunset 🤌🏼❤

[@KWANDO1000]

That was an informative video. Well done

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

There is an island out that way that you can only get to by boat or kayak. You CAN camp on it but that is the only way to reach it. You should try to find out about it! Have you gone to any of the springs near Ocala? There are some east of Ocala that we loved when we lived there! Salt Springs is amazing and those crabs reminded me of it, lol. This is so awesome I live south of Clearwater now but considering moving a couple miles from that causeway. What do you think? Do you like that area??? Oh, that was NOT a dolphin. They swim in swimming areas in Indian Rocks Beach and their fins are different, manatees swim with us too at that beach. Enjoy yourself!

[@maxrun934]

Really enjoyed the trip, saw Gary a bunch, honeymoon island is great , ferry boat was awesome,

[@edstein5642]

I spent first 35 years of my life in Clearwater so this is fun. I can delete several lame vids off my phone since your vid is superior & covers so much. If you kayak there again know that there are several spoil islands from channel dredging through there that have beach & trees that you could camp on. Eat at the original Frenchy’s & get the grouper cheeks & a Reef Donkey beer. The Beach Fire has good seafood too. Thanks for putting living mollusks back in the water.

[@gianinni2002]

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly…..if it wasn’t for the fact that we enjoyed your singing and off off broadway performance in the car, so much, we would read you the riot act on your driving while looking at your phone! My wife and I think that if we had a daughter she would have been just like you! You are such a joy! We just love ya!

[@DanielSaleeba]

Used to go to Tate’s all the time. Such good food. Grouper sandwich is amazing. Kaia is amazing. Stoped in there almost every morning for breakfast. And I used to work at Frenchy’s . Lol Glad to se you enjoyed my home town where I grew up and lived. This video makes me miss it a lot.

[@TinaLeighh]

Definitely a shark😮😬

[@kellyhays23]

Ope we got the first vote for shark! Mimi will be happy 🤣

[@timfields6130]

You are correct. It looked to be a spinner shark

[@jduggan4129]

Wow just wow. Love the singalong, mangroves, sun set, food what an awesome little adventure. Love you guys. California Joanna

[@kellyhays23]

💛💛💛💛

[@tblmt]

Seriously I ❤that you’re always going on adventures in Florida. 😊. You really make me want to do it too!

[@paavoviuhko7250]

Another great video. And I'm glad to meet Mimi. Never a boring moment.

[@sammymartinez556]

Seems like you’re having fun.. enjoy my friend 👋👋❤️😊

[@DanielSaleeba]

Ahhh! At my birthplace and home town. Just moved to Tennessee. This makes me want to move back home again.

[@fairoaks42]

Now you need to go to the east coast and catch the sunrise. That was definitely a shark!

[@kellyhays23]

Coming soon!

[@813kengarcia]

I’m loving this Florida series! Your adventures are fun, you got some beautiful shots and it’s so cool seeing my backyard highlighted. But for real, it’s a low key secret so sssshhhh!

[@andrewkinbacher7675]

The sunset was almost as beautiful as Mimi. Thank you for sharing your experiences and keep up the great work😊

[@stevenmather1131]

Another eye opening video by Kelly showing us the pritty place she lives in. Kelly thank you for the content please keep them coming

[@kellyhays23]

Thank you steven! Will do!!

[@stevenmather1131]

@@kellyhays23 your more than welcome

[@DanielSaleeba]

Crazy seeing this on KZbin when I literally grew up there and was at all of these places just about everyday.

[@brittayoung5574]

Frenchy’s is the best! Grouper is one of the best things about Florida. It’s about to be the best time of year in Florida. November and December is the perfect weather. Basically early summer weather everywhere else.

[@kellyhays23]

Lovvveeee grouper! The seafood in florida has been top notch! I’m so excited for the upcoming months.

[@mitchthornton1820]

Kelly’s sing alongs are pure gold … 👍👍

[@stupidass3791]

Besides the driving while staring at the phone.

[@sarashaw23]

Used to go to Clearwater Beach every summer as a kid. My absolute favorite place in Florida. That sunset was spectacular and ya got the lightening in the background. Looks like another amazingly fun adventure was had! ~follow your bliss~

[@ChrisCastro-to5vb]

Loved the part when paddle boarding just became boarding and you had to go back 😂

[@Rhett174]

Enjoyed this video ! Thanks

[@rockercover]

The kayak grove trails are a view to remember. Glad there was no wild life in there to disturb your cruise. The beach time looked the best. Thanks again! 😊

[@jeanyates6259]

Great video. 😊. Enjoy your days off!!

[@Golfpt62]

The kayak trails looked awesome. Cool place

[@chasing-the-afterglow]

I love clearwater beach! And we have the best sunsets here on the gulf side. Caladesi Island is also an awesome place, glad you found it to explore. You should check out Chassahowitska River and campground. You can hang out at the 7 sisters spring heads and if you're feeling adventurous, you can make your way to The Crack, which is a spring vent.

[@kellyhays23]

That sounds awesome!

[@Onewholovesrock]

Looks nice! My Dog, Wife and myself we’ll be road tripping down from Wisconsin in a few days. St. Pete Beach area. We usually wait until February but threw in an extra trip this year.

[@kellyhays23]

Heck yeah! Such a great area! Hope y’all have a good time

[@Onewholovesrock]

@@kellyhays23 thanks!

[@BootsAndPearls85]

"Not today Kelly, I'm busy!" - the crabs, probably

[@BackyardEngineer334]

Fall is the best season for the beach imo, nice video.

[@kellyhays23]

I can’t wait to go on some fall beach trips!

[@ReneVandyk]

Hi Kelly what an Awesome and beautiful Scenery 😊

[@jasonjones5213]

Cool video, I'm learning things about Florida I never knew.I loved when you were going through the mangroves.

[@kyclark2514]

Great vid! I live locally and my son and I kayak often here. You can see so many varieties of wildlife in a span of a few hours Also funny to hear how everyone pronounces “Dunedin” in different ways.

[@brandonsanders9674]

this trip looked so fun and relaxing! I definitely want to visit that beach ASAP! I'm trying to get my parents to let me stay with them down in Florida this winter. If so I will be living a half hour north of the Tamp Bay area!

[@vickaiser]

Seriously jealous of your weekend. Looked awesome.

[@kellyhays23]

It was a good time! I had fun reliving it while editing! Lots of laughs!

[@sherriewoods9538]

Such beautiful scenery! Thank you for sharing!

[@MudFlap62]

Clearwater beach is awesome. Frenchy’s is one of my favorites. Great video. ☮️🍺

[@ReneVandyk]

Hi Kelly you are Absolutely Awesome and Amazing so Much Fun ❤😊

[@kimstark4449]

Thanks!

[@kellyhays23]

Thank YOU, Kim💛

[@MORALCOMPASSTOO]

Loving it 🤩

[@kanenjames8503]

Dunedin is my hometown! I was just there last week after I helped disaster response.

[@lisamonalisahikes]

I haven’t been there in years! Great memories

[@AscendXTrading]

I'm in Clearwater... live here. Frenchy's is great. Coco's "formerly cooters" is good too. Guppy's down on gulf blvd is amazing too if you want to splurge.

[@maxrun934]

Okay. Booked on my way to try a grouper sandwich.....

[@erikrenner]

Looks like you two had a lot of fun. You should have swung down here to Fort Myers to get me. 😭

[@williamhuddlestun9240]

I really enjoy your vids. Love the way you show how have good time without spending mega bucks to do it. Also you are not hard to look at!

[@vibelife5133]

Shark 💯

[@nancysatori4744]

Great times! I love Clearwater, and I think my husband and I had green same tall waiter at Frenchys!

[@nancysatori4744]

Also, nothing better than a good lightning storm on the beach!

[@kellyhays23]

I agree!!!!!

[@bsfishing7073]

My skin is starting to feel like I’m getting bite on the mangrove are the worst places to be with out mosquito repellent, I hope you brought some with you

[@marysalmon2367]

awesome video. I've kayaked the keys, bay and mangroves a few times and i love it. gotta get back down there. you've inspired me to plan a trip.

[@kellyhays23]

🙌🙌🙌🙌👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@bsfishing7073]

You listen to the music of Disney from the movie Mulan 😅seriously looks like a great road-trip 😅

[@deltaoutdoorsman884]

Good video. Looks like a great time down there. How about a link to that AirBnB?

[@kellyhays23]

abnb.me/0a7ktpZV0tb

[@joemeloche277]

Kelly I’m am so excited that you were able to come to Clearwater Beach, Dunedin causeway (which leads to honeymoon island), Caladesi Island, and of course Frenchys (hope you had their “she crab soup”) I live just north of there by five minutes in Palm Harbor. What did you think of the white sand? Oh by the way yes that was a shark 🦈 did the sand dollars turn your fingers yellow? 😂 I’ll admit it is so cool seeing my home town on your videos… would have loved meeting you and saying hello. Be careful of those lighting storms they can be nasty the good things is they don’t last to long. We joke that it could be raining on one side of the street and not on the other… Glad you were able to experience are beautiful area. Joe M

[@kellyhays23]

Hey Joe! The sand dollars did turn my hands yellow! What’s up with that!! You have a pretty awesome home town! I will def be back!!

[@iainsanders4775]

Are there phosphorescent plankton in those waters. Would look spectacular around those paddles.. ( Though at night).

[@frolege1]

thanks for showing us the mangroves. the mangroves are so important for the protection of erosion. over-building and destroying of mangroves needs to be address. the mangroves root systems are so dense and strong.

[@kellyhays23]

It was like nothing I’d ever seen!

[@southerngirlyall6497]

Do you think my inflatable kayak would be OK from the causeway to Caledesi?

[@ReneVandyk]

Hi Kelly here in Canada those are called silver dollars y they are Very Special 😊

[@lucindaturnis6605]

Beautiful sunset! Love beach sunsets ....only thing better is yoga on the beach at dawn/sunrise 😉

[@herpiggy4857]

Great video, Kelly. It is so much fun watching you just enjoying yourself! You may have answered this at some point in time but if so I missed it. Would you share where you attended college?

[@kellyhays23]

University of Central Arkansas

[@herpiggy4857]

@@kellyhays23 go Bear!

[@AbleHammer]

Loved the sunset and thunder storms 🌩!! 😊. Did your feet squeak on the fine white sand? 😅

[@kellyhays23]

Yes!!!

[@bsfishing7073]

So I’m wondering what is your opinion on the state of Florida we have so many places but which one do you love the best and why do you like it more then the other places

[@davidlooney3018]

Good video. What’s the bird with the spoon bill sort of pink in color? Got some fresh grouper in my freezer from a recent fishing trip think it’s time to fire the grill up 😊

[@kellyhays23]

I’m not sure but he sure was pretty!! Jealous! I want some! Haha

[@maxrun934]

Saw your friend Gary today

[@bsfishing7073]

Clearly a shark that fin was too pointed to be a dolphin, 😮cool video of it

[@kyclark2514]

That is a shark. I’ve spent a lot of time on the water here in the gulf and an easy indicator for telling the difference between shark and dolphins is that sharks will only show their fin and dolphins will show part of their back too when breaching the water.

[@kyclark2514]

Looked like a decent sized biull shark trolling for food tbh. They’re the most aggressive sharks we have here but that doesn’t mean they’re out to get you.

[@johnmys5am]

Shark....for sure.

[@destroystreets1023]

14 fooot great white, im no stranger. one almost took me arm in a bad storm off de coast

[@lizlovely1]

It was a shark!!

[@jamesdelavallierre3138]

Love it

[@jimmyjenkins9240]

That was fun!

[@kellyhays23]

I had extra fun editing this one 😂

[@TheChuckoluck]

You guys singing in the car was very entertaining.

[@kellyhays23]

🤣

[@stupidass3791]

Yea, good job with the reading of the phone while driving!

[@kellyhays23]

Lol I’m sure you have neeeevvvverrrrr looked at your phone while driving

[@TheAdventuresOfDougan]

The ‘little birds’ were most likely Sand Pipers, the bigger birds were, of course, Sea Gulls. It’s illegal to ‘take’ (ie catch) certain Groupers. Some can grow as large as 500 lbs, and the bigger they are, the older they are, so, most spear or pole fishermen (and women) tend to steer clear of Grouper. Wouldn’t hurt to ask your server who they buy their seafood from, and check them out 😉

[@robmorgan977]

Definitely a shark…probably a small bull with the look of the dark tail fin

[@Exploring_Gia]

Lmao 😂 I love meme’s shirt

[@fishingwithdrupydog5547]

I think you’ll wonderful ✌️❤️😃

[@leedanielson7452]

Awesome video and it was a dolphin!🤣👍❤️

[@kellyhays23]

That’s what I thought too!!!

[@leedanielson7452]

@@kellyhays23 😊

[@timfields6130]

@@kellyhays23 That was a shark. To make sure, I watched video on 52" screen. The color and shape of main dorsal fin suggest Spinner shark (overall harmless to people), plus note the second dorsal fin moving side to side. Dolphins do NOT have a second dorsal fin. Right now Florida is loaded with them, especially this time of year during the mullet migration. Our sharks in Florida do move up into the shallow waters. I've been catching (and releasing) them in the backcountry just an hour north of Clearwater. This was an awesome video.Keep up the great content and enjoy yourself here in my Native Playground. I do have one request and I'm sure others will agree, please stop playing on your phone while driving. We'd all like to keep you around.

[@TheAkashicNomad]

@@timfields6130 sounds like you know what’s up! I didn’t go to the extra trouble to check a large screen etc. 👏 as Kelly says, “KZbin knows all!” It looked like 2 fins, and I figured 2 dolphins swimming side by side. Plus, have seen tons of dolphins in the bay and around tampa bay etc. (I’ve lived in tampa bay for 11 years or so 😊) Heard of spinner dolphins, not spinner sharks. Cool. Learn something new everyday! 🦈

[@brucemartin6895]

BIG SAND DOLLARS !

[@stevetrimborn3739]

Team Great White!!!

[@kellyhays23]

🤣

[@Traveler7450]

nice video

[@jamesadams2334]

Kelly don't go into the water after dark. Tampa Bay is the second largest shark breeding ground in the world. Only the Great Barrier Reef is bigger. 1 foot of water is enough to get attacked. They come into the shallows at night to feed.

[@justinjones5302]

We tried the trials with the kayaks and there were soo many mosquitoes we had to turn around

[@iainsanders4775]

Shoulda paddled faster...

[@justinjones5302]

@@iainsanders4775 was moving faster than anyone could paddle. I had a small motor on my kayak. Shhhhhhh 🤫

[@harmony6702]

Which part of Florida do you live in

[@mikemoore9623]

That was a Dolphin/shark=His mom was a dolphin & dad was a shark.--Just kidding. Great video. I love Fl. everything was beautiful.

[@onelovemon1784]

Hi, When was this filmed?

[@kellyhays23]

September

[@onelovemon1784]

@@kellyhays23 love watching you from Appalachian to all the West adventures and on. Glad you are well and feeling good, safe from hurricane and enjoying Florida. 👍😊

[@kellyhays23]

@@onelovemon1784 💛💛💛💛💛🙌 thank you!!!

[@chaosiscandytome]

Ready to subscribe to khh swims!

[@kellyhays23]

🤣🤣🤣 fun fact I swam until 6th grade and then had to choose between it and basketball. I chose basketball, but I was a really good swimmer!

[@manmohanreddykatikala8256]

💞Kelly.

[@TheAkashicNomad]

Dolphin 🐬 for sure!

[@kellyhays23]

Hahaha yes!!!

[@timfields6130]

Spinner shark

[@Justusson]

@@kellyhays23 Love how you’re only acknowledging the answers that says dolphin,.. 😂 Amazing place and amazing videos. That kayaking looked so inviting and those waters looked so tranquil (besides the possible shark 😅 - I wouldn’t know, I’m from Sweden,..). Thanks for sharing! 😊👋

[@ronwhite1642]

So nice seeing Yung ladies with out tattoos all over 💯👌😎✌️

[@deanwilliams9836]

Frenchy’s is My favorite spot my sister-in-law is a waitress at the Frenchy’s Rockaway you need to go back stone crab weekend it is a blast if you go to Rockaway ask for Weezer she will take care of you.

[@kellyhays23]

Oh nice! I’ll remember to ask for her next time I go

[@deanwilliams9836]

@@kellyhays23 Also my brother-in-law is a local musician there in the Clearwater area look him up for some good local music he goes by Johnny B

[@zaftra]

lol, buba growler, growler is slang for female lady bits in the UK

[@kellyhays23]

LMAOOOO

[@danielkutcher5704]

Mangroves and no mandates! Florida freedom!

[@biglakepress5788]

Omg get rid of the phone on the road... jeez! Would hate to see u end up being a stain on the road. 😢 im a retired over the road truck driver with over 2 million logged safe miles. I've seen lots of stains.

[@user-David-Alan]

A little gas money.

[@kellyhays23]

Thank you so so much, David!!!!