Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com Saturday we took a bike ride on the Pinellas Trail. We parked the car on the Dunedin Causeway just outside of Honeymoon Island State Park, then rode our bikes east along the causeway to its intersection with the Pinellas Trail, which is a 30 mile-long scenic bike / pedestrian […]
Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com.
Posted by David McRee on BlogTheBeach.com
They stink as they dry, but only for a day or so. Within a week or so, the old wrack line is buried. While still fresh, it is a dinner table and playground for creatures of the beach.
The ice on my car windshield late last week was a sign that we would not be in for good beach weather for a while. But the early part of this week has warmed up nicely, at least during the daylight hours. It’s always cooler at the beach because of the breeze off the water, […]
If you’ve been following this blog for the last few days, you’ll know that an unusually low tide hampered my ability to get to Cayo Costa Island State Park from Pine Island on Saturday December 13. However, I did manage to spend a few minutes hunting for shells in the exposed mud next to the […]
Sebastian Inlet beaches have few shells. At least few whole shells. There are lots of shell fragments all over the beach and mixed in with the sand. In fact the shell fragments give Sebastian Inlet’s beaches a warm brown color. One of the things I noticed is that unlike most beaches in Florida, Sebastian Inlet […]
[Lettered olive (Oliva sayana)] One evening during March as I was walking along St. Pete Beach I discovered hundreds of these live lettered olive shells by the water’s edge. They are one of the most beautiful shells to be found on Florida beaches because of their intricate patterns and because they have the most brilliant […]
