Category Archives: 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

Where You Can See Fireworks From the Beach

Most fireworks shows start around 9pm, just after sunset.
Weather Forecast Article

Saint Pete Beach:
6850 Beach Plaza

Treasure Island:
On the beach 104th Avenue & Gulf Boulevard.

Redington Beach:
182nd Ave and Gulf Blvd

Madeira Beach:
Around 150th Avenue & Gulf Boulevard

Clearwater Beach:
Over the Memorial Causeway
Past Fireworks Show Article

Tarpon Springs:
Sunset Beach

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

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.

Honeymoon Renourishment: A Review From 2016

I was just going through posts to reorganize the opinion section of this site and came across this post from 2016. It’s a really great depiction of how ineffective the t-goins are. It’s an add on article for the recently written article titled, Honeymoon Island Beach Renourishment: He wants more, don’t give it to him. It was really only a year or less before all the sand placed on the beach dissapeared. T-goins suck!

From previous article:
The foreground of this image is of the beach closer to the existing T-groin. This section of beach was re-nourished with sand just this past year. As you can see there are a considerable amount of lime rocks on what is left of the beach.