Tarballs come from oil spills, and can make your day at the beach even more adventurous.
The Courtney Campbell Causeway linking Tampa and Clearwater recently reached 75 years of age, and local history buffs celebrated the birthday, and put up a new historical marker. Those of you who read the stories will know that Ben T. Davis built the thing, but his name has since been relegated to an undesirable excuse of [...]
Remember Tony Antonious? He owns the Redington Long Pier, and played dumb when the West Coast Anglers were bullying people off of the fishing pier. As we mentioned back then, he’s been in a pissing match with the City of Redington Shores for years revolving around the safety of the structure as well as zoning issues [...]
With apologies to the greatest novels of all time for the liberties I’ve taken below. Treasure Island city commissioners have decided that they will no longer be funding the Treasure Island library: Cutting the Treasure Island library funding means residents of that city no longer will have free access to the Gulf Beaches system, which is located [...]
TripAdvisor says that Fort De Soto Park’s North Beach is the top beach in the entire United States. Dr. Beach told you that years ago. He also said that Caladesi Island is number two.
For those of you who think growth can just be completely stopped, think about this. Imagine a January Monday “up there” somewhere – you wake up early, pile on a bunch of clothes, put a parka on over that, and go start the car. Then you grab your snow shovel, create a path for [...]
“It’s really hard to put the genie back in the bottle, and that’s what we’re doing here.” So said Pinellas County Commission Chairman Ronnie Duncan after the commission banned Bowser and Budweiser from Shell Key and its environs on Tuesday. Of course in this case the genie looks more like David Hasselhoff than Barbara Eden. The move took [...]
And the beaches are less pasty white or lobster red.
I recently rediscovered the Courtney Campbell Causeway. You rarely hear about this bridge’s beauty these days. Normally the only mention that you hear of it is when there is a fatal crash or a well known figure is arrested there. The causeway is the northernmost bridge over Old Tampa Bay linking Pinellas [...]
