Anna Maria Island

At Home in Holmes Beach, FL

September 18, 2010

Friday evening we drove out to Anna Maria Island and parked in Holmes Beach on 46th Street. When I come here I always feel like I’m coming home since I spent so much time here as a youth. The beach was quiet and the water was calm as a lake, though not as clear as [...]

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Anna Maria Island Web Cam at Beach Bistro in Holmes Beach

September 17, 2010

I don’t know how long this web cam has been operational, but it’s a good one. It’s located at 6600 Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach, FL, on Anna Maria Island. Anna Maria Island beach web cam at the Beach Bistro. View Larger Map More Florida beach web cams.

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August on Anna Maria Island: Green Water, White Sand

August 20, 2010

Video above via my iphone4 low resolution #2 camera on the face of the phone. I managed to break away from my to-do list long enough to enjoy a couple of hours on Anna Maria beach Wednesday. The water was really clear despite the chop from the stiff afternoon sea breeze. There was a fairly [...]

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Anna Maria City Pier: Where Past and Present Collide

July 30, 2010

I’ve been enjoying the Anna Maria City Pier since I was a kid in the early 1960′s. But even in those days the pier was something of a relic from another era. According to the Anna Maria Island Historical Society, the pier was originally a dock constructed in 1911 to attract wealthy people from Tampa [...]

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Anna Maria Island: Lunch & Beach

July 28, 2010

I drove down to Bradenton to meet a buddy for lunch today, but his work schedule intervened and I faced the horrible prospect of lunch alone. Boo, hoo. So I did what any self-employed Florida native would do when faced with such a dire situation in the middle of the week on a hot July [...]

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Great Beach Day on Anna Maria Island

March 31, 2010

If you want to avoid traffic and parking issues, arrive at the beach by 9:30 a.m. during nice spring weather. It’s worth it!

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A Beautiful Day at the Beach–Finally!

March 13, 2010

I’ve been cooped up in the house all week so I just had to take advantage of the clear weather this afternoon and take a walk on the beach. I’ll shut up and let the pictures do the talking.

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Visiting Anna Maria Island? Don’t Miss These Restaurants

February 5, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com If you are visiting Anna Maria Island, don’t miss these restaurants: The Sun House Restaurant The Sun House Restaurant is in Bradenton Beach on Historic Bridge Street at the roundabout, right across the street from the Gulf of Mexico. I enjoyed eating dinner here one evening and was completely [...]

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Here are a Few More Florida Summer Beach Memories.

January 3, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com If you are on vacation at the beach in Florida this first week in January 2010, my apologies to you for the weather. High temperatures in much of the state will remain in the 50′s Fahrenheit. That doesn’t happen very often. If you aren’t on vacation here this week, [...]

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Say Good-bye to Manatee County Public Beach Pier

December 2, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com Lifeguard Curtis Mcfee sent me this cell phone photo today of the pier at Manatee County Public Beach being torn down. I don’t remember when this pier was originally built, but it must have been before 1960, the year I was born, because I can never remember a time [...]

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