tampa bay’s live webcams
tommySmile!
You might be on a webcam!
There are more than a handful of public area webcams in the Tampa Bay area, and I figured I’d try to put a list of them all in one place.
Most of the webcams are claimed by your local media companies, and they call them trafficcams or weathercams. WFTS has a web cam on top of the GTE Federal Credit Union, while MyFoxTampaBay has a bunch of weathercams, including two on top of their huge SkyTower (one facing east and one west) on Kennedy Boulevard, as well as one at Clearwater Beach and at Grand Court in South Tampa. They even have a weathercam inside the WTVT studios. TampaBay’s 10 has four trafficcams. WFLA purports to have a camera atop the News Center near downtown, but we haven’t seen an image there in months. Bay News 9 brags of fifteen cameras online locally, and lists several more cameras all over the state of Florida.
511 Tampa Bay has a handful of trafficcams, while Weatherbug lists a few weathercams in the area, including this camera atop the Rampello Downtown Partnership School, one at Legends Field on Dale Mabry, Bright House Networks Field in Clearwater, and one at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg.
In downtown Tampa, there are at least four construction cams. In a Big Brother sort of way, contractors hire companies to keep a camera trained on the building and crew to make sure everything is being done right, and on time. Many of these are available to the public, and face the structure being built. Take a look at the Element Construction Cam and the Tampa Bay History Center Construction Cam. The first ConstructoCam we noticed was the Skypoint construction cam (which is still taking two or three photos an hour - take a look at the photos around sunset). Right next to that one is the Curtis Hixon/Tampa Museum of Art webcam (username: tampamuseum@webcam.com, password: downtown).
Your county government has a camera on top of the pink Hillsborough County building in downtown. You can take control of that one, even zooming to look into the windows at Tampa City Hall. The City of Clearwater Beach has three beachcams set up along their waterfront.
Speaking of the beach, the TradeWinds resort has a St. Pete Beach webcam, and the Don CeSar offers a great view of the beach with the appropriately named Don CeSar Resort Beach Cam.
TECO has two cameras at their Big Bend facility to watch the manatees, but are only operable from November to April. Ybor Eye has three area webcams in various states of working order. Some realtor has a Hillsborough River cam, and Mike’s Cat Cam shows a patio which may or may not really be in Tampa Bay.
Those are all that I could find, but I’m certain there are others out there that I have missed. If you have a webcam in the area, be sure to let us know about it in the comments.
Happy voyeurism!
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May 8th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Very interesting stuff. Good researching.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I knew we had quite a few from the various new channels, but this list is a bit longer than I realized.
I’ll wear a ballcap more often… don’t want people seeing my receding hairline on camera when someone else makes the evening news.