Category Archives: Biology

Biology, Community, Surfing, Tourism

No One Wants Me Here

Some of you might be getting discouraged by the content of my website. I’d like to tell you why the content takes such a pessimistic view of our community and often society in general. I’d like to tell you about my experiences in our community.

I’m just going to start with the recent work I did to reach out to the biology community. Data can be interesting. With training in research and data analysis, I started trying to take a look at data related to the highly commercialized sea turtles and other biologically related activities that are considered Continue reading No One Wants Me Here →

Birds, North Pinellas, Surf's Up Surf Report

Surf’s Up Surf Report: 2pm on Saturday, 07/21/18

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Way smaller surf today. There’s a light onshore breeze. Even the kids are having to ride the bigger boards to catch waves. The tide is on the low end of the low tides, and will start to come in around 3:30. If you’re just waking up like I should be right now if a big roar of a big truck down the street didn’t wake me up, I’d say wait for the evening if at all, maaybe even skip it until tomorrow.

Construction and Renovation, Sea Shells

Pinellas County Dredging 2018: Boats, Tractors, Sifter, and Tubing

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It’s July 1st, 2018 today; county, state, and federal tax dollars are officially being used to create beaches on private beachfront property because of the recent passage of a bill that overrides local customary use policies on the beaches. It’s hard to believe so much money can be going into the pockets of private beachfront property. Monitoring your government’s uses of power isn’t the worst idea.  At least you can understand what’s going on, and make informed decisions about the few things you do have control over.