I spoke to the Honeymoon Island State Park park manager today, Mr. Peter Krulder. We spoke about surfing being banned at Honeymoon Island State Park. I formulated a series of questions to ask him on camera. Though he didn’t want to be on camera, he didn’t seem to mind when I said I would like to post his answers to the questions. Continue reading No Surfing Zone at Honeymoon Island
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Florida Red Tide as a State of Emergency
Shocking news that the State of Florida has issued a state of emergency for the annual red tide event happening in the southwestern portion of west Florida. What makes this event so unusual? It sounds inaccurate to suggest that this has been going on for 10 months. It’s doubtful that we had a K. brevis prevalence worth noting before the water temperatures got above 85 degrees. According to one news outlet funding will go to Pinellas in addition to affected counties. Pinellas hasn’t had red tide at all this summer, and we were surfing just three days ago without any red tide. With funding in place what type of uses will it go towards? It’s likely that it will be spent on discretionary expenditures, cleanup, things of that nature, when in reality we should be putting the money into prevention. Check out the red tide state of emergency declaration.
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.