After sleeping in a little, breakfast and a mocha at Starbucks, we headed up to Tarpon Springs, about 10 miles north to look around and have a Greek Food late lunch at Dimitri's on the Water, a great Greek restaurant Judy and I visited many times in prior spring training visits. You know you are in a real Greek restaurant when the serve their olive oil from 50-gallon drums.
Tarpon Springs is a city at the mouth of the Anclote River that feeds many bayous into the Gulf It became, and still is, a major location of sponge harvesting in the country. It attracted a large number of Greek Immigrants in the early 1900's who were familiar with sponge harvesting in the Greek islands.
Tarpon Springs, Florida - Wikipedia
Tarpon Springs is now a major Greek American community with the largest percentage of Greek ancestry of any American City (10.4%). The city has also turned the Sponge Dock Area into a major tourist attraction with excellent Greek restaurants, boat tours, and lots of tourist type shops selling sponges, and other things you usually find at beachfront towns and cities. It is still a working dock area however, very picturesque and an attractive place to visit. The sponge dock area was very busy today with variety of tourists.
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