A while back I was contacted by writer Jenni Stahlmann concerning an article she was writing for Venice Magazine. Would I do a short phone interview? I did, and Ms. Stahlmann used a few quotes from the interview in her article, which explores the effect Venice beach has on life in that city. Venice Magazine […]
For those of you who’ve stuck around all the way to the end of this blog post, here’s a cool panoramic photo I put together with my iphone (click photo to enlarge):
Winter at Home – Part 2 from Cavin Brothers on Vimeo. A few weeks ago I shared a surfing video by Cavin Brothers. It was well-received, so I thought I’d share this great video of a day at the beach, plus a bit of surfing, in the Venice area on the Florida gulf coast. It’s […]
How many beaches on the southwest coast of Florida appear today as they did 500 years ago? Not very many. But Caspersen Beach is one of those rare places. Just take a look at the photo above. The beach is lined with cabbage palms (Florida’s state tree). Native grasses and sea grapes join the palms […]
Caspersen Beach, in Venice, Florida is a lovely beach. There are no buildings on the beach. Just cabbage palms, sea grapes, and sea oats. The sand is dark gray–very dark in some places–because of fossilized materials mixed with the shell and quartz. It’s fairly easy to find fossilized sharks teeth here, among other fossils. This […]
