A sailboat sails in front of the sunset off Coquina Beach on southern Anna Maria Island.
Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
Thursday evening I drove out to Coquina Beach with my parents and my brother Joel, who is visiting from Tennessee. None of them had been to the beach in perhaps decades. It was a beautiful sunset and a very relaxing evening.
It was Mom and Dad, of course, who introduced me to the beach as a baby. Mom used to spend summers out at the beach with a friend before she married my Dad, in an apartment somewhere on 81st Ave in Anna Maria.
When my parents were kids, the bridge to the island was a narrow wooden bridge, the vestigage of which now stands as the Bridge Street Pier in Bradenton Beach. The current concrete bridges were built in the 1950’s I believe–shortly before I was born.
The McRee's of Manatee County. Mom and Dad seated, brother Joel (left, standing), and me in the green shirt I bought on Cabbage Key.
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Looks like a wonderful evening on the beach. Beautiful sunset photo.
nice to see the whole family! gorgeous photo. marge