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Life at the beach

A Taste of Dunedin

March 9, 2010

Florida Tourism “Eli’s BBQ” from AboutFace Media on Vimeo.
Not long ago my wife and I took a bike ride from Honeymoon Island along the Pinellas Trail to Dunedin. Along the way we passed by a little BBQ stand that looked and smelled really good. Unfortunately we had already eaten lunch downtown, but we made a [...]

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Beach Web Cams are Getting Better and More Numerous in Florida

March 7, 2010

I use beach web cams a lot. During the summer I check the web cams to see if it’s raining at the beach. I also use them to see if the surf is up when a hurricane or tropical storm is in the Gulf or Atlantic.
During the spring months, on days that seem like perfect [...]

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Purple Sea Snails a Curiosity on Florida Beaches

February 22, 2010

Eleven years of working on Fort Lauderdale Beach and Lt. Gio Serrano of Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue has never seen so many purple snails washing up on the beach. One has to wonder if the unusually cold and rainy El Nino winter has had a hand in this mass stranding.
Note that the snail seems to [...]

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Valentine Weekend Dinner at the Thai Orchid in St. Petersburg, FL

February 13, 2010

Suzie and I had our first date 6 years ago on Valentine’s Day. We had take-out from the Thai Orchid Restaurant in St. Petersburg, FL.
So every year for Valentine’s Day we come back here (and many other days during the year as well) to our favorite Thai Restaurant. Since we will be somewhere else on [...]

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Florida Shark Bite Fatality Raises Important Questions About Beach Safety

February 6, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I don’t usually make comments about shark bite incidents. Most shark bite reports in the newspapers and on news channels tend to lack enough detail to really explain what happened. This latest case of a kite surfer being fatally bitten south of Stuart Beach in Florida is different, and instructive. [...]

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Beach Sunrise Memories

January 22, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com

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Does It Snow in Florida?

January 9, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I’m sure this is going to go down in the record books as one of the coldest winters on record in Florida. (I promise I’m not going to make any wise-cracks about global warming). My friend and fellow writer Kevin Mims got some video of the white fluffy rain up [...]

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BeachHunter’s Top 10 Beach Photos in 2009

January 1, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I’ve gone through my 2009 photos and picked out some of my favorites to share. They are favorites because they evoke wonderful memories, not because of any photographic excellence. Any photos that qualify as technically good are the result of pure dumb luck on my part.
We spent three days in [...]

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Kevin Mims: An Outdoorsman to Follow

December 9, 2009

Every  once in a while I meet someone who has energy, purpose and motivation, all focused on a particular path. Kevin Mims is one of those people. During the course of my blogging for VISITFLORIDA.com I met Kevin for the first time, face-to-face, at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park down on Key Largo. As [...]

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Babcock Wilderness Adventures Swamp Buggy Eco-Tour

November 22, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
This past spring I had a chance, courtesy of the Charlotte Harbor Visitor’s Bureau, to visit the Crescent B Ranch in Punta Gorda. Located on this incredible 90,000 acre wilderness preserve and working ranch is Babcock Wilderness Adventures.
They operate a swamp buggy eco-tour that takes visitors all over the ranch [...]

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