Sharks Clear Out South Florida Beaches and Man-O-War Attacks Up Off South Florida Beaches are typical of the kinds of articles about Florida beaches you’ll find not buried in the travel section. So I was happy to see a much less sensational article in recent Google search results. Today, Ellen Creager had an article on […]
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Work is Life, Life is Work
We all dream about what it would be like to just spend the day relaxing at the beach. But to be happy, I think we all need to be engaged in some purposeful activity. Work, that is. That doesn’t mean we have to have a job, or even that we have to get paid for […]
Tropical Island Dream Job
The internet is abuzz today with the story of the “dream job” being offered for some lucky person on Australia’s Hamilton Island, a resort island destination near the Great Barrier Reef. (Note: photo is from Tourism Queensland) The job is reported to pay slightly over $100,000 US for 6 months of employment to whoever is […]
(Another) New Year Arrives
What are you going to do with the New Year? Are you going to start something new? Or just muck along the same well-trodden path? Few of us, I think, can say we are satisfied with where we are. Why should we be? If we were, where could we possibly go from here? The two […]
Christmas on Freeport Beach
My friends Neil and Maria spent Christmas in Pennsylvania. Of course, they couldn’t resist a trip to the beach on Lake Erie. I’m sure they were homesick for the beaches here in Florida. Note: that white stuff they’re standing in– it isn’t beach sand.
Beaches + Family + Photography = Simple Treasures
Rarely do I go to the beach in the evening without seeing a couple or a family having their portrait made by a professional photographer. Often, it is bride and groom having portraits made in the soft warm light of sunset. The dunes and the sea oats make a lovely background, as does the sunset […]
Florida Beach Vendors Sell Convenience
On Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach, vendors drive these big rigs down onto the beach and park them for the day. They sell food, drinks, and beach supplies, and they rent all kinds of stuff that people need or want at the beach: chairs, umbrellas, boogie boards, surfboards, bikes, etc. The prices are very […]
Beach Restaurant food: Overpriced?
We were recently up in the Florida panhandle visiting some small beach towns we’d never really visited before. We were tourists. By mealtime we were HUNGRY tourists, so we had to find food. Luckily, we got a few good recommendations from the locals. Since I was working on an article about the area for another […]
