New Smyrna Beach

Holiday Inn & Suites New Smyrna Beach Delivers

November 8, 2011

I spent two days last week exploring New Smyrna Beach and Daytona Beach to finish up a new book I’ll be announcing shortly. So stay tuned. I had planned to grab a hotel room off International Speedway Blvd and I-95, but it was getting late and I remembered that I’d once stayed at this Holiday [...]

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Learn About Beach Birds

October 30, 2010

Birds are often the most visible and audible animal at the beach. Terns and gulls gracefully circle and dive; long-necked herons and egrets stalk the shoreline; and tiny peeps race back and forth along the seashore. But there are many kinds of gulls, terns, herons and peeps. Many come from far away lands and are [...]

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Box Jellyfish Appearing on Volusia County Beaches

October 19, 2010

The last 2 weeks have been rather quiet as far as jellyfish reports are concerned. Usually I get two to five reports a week. But suddenly  a large number of box jellyfish are being reported in the surf off Volusia County, Florida beaches. Photographer and artist Kem McNair has generously shared the photos he took [...]

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New Smyrna Beach Video Surf Report on YouTube: NSBStreets

March 18, 2010

If you travel to the New Smyrna Beach are a to catch some waves, or if you just like to keep up with surfing conditions, check out the NSBStreets Youtube Channel. Video clips are posted daily showing the surf conditions at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

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Breakers Restaurant New Smyrna Beach

July 25, 2008

I just spent a couple of days exploring the beaches between New Smyrna and Vero Beach with my old high school buddy Alex Kerr. Don’t get to see him often since he lives on Guam, but he happened to be in Florida for the Coral Reef Symposium and an echinoderm conference at the Florida Technical [...]

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