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):
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Caspersen Beach: A Page Out of History
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 Quiet Afternoon
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 […]
