downtownjedDestination: Florida
May 28th 2011 15:53
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New Headlines in Travel show Siesta Beach, in Sarasota, FLA is the number one beach in the US. I whole heartedly agree. Siesta Beach boasts the world's finest quartz crystal sand, making it the whitest, most sugary soft sands you can imagine. It is a wide beach, 100 yards, at least, in most locations and the dunes, and seagrass are carefully protected by residents, park rangers, and beach staff. Siesta Beach is also breeding grounds for hundreds of sea turtles, so their eggs are guarded as best as people can guard them.
This area of south western Florida, is teeming with wildlife, and wildlife refuges. On Siesta Key, just south of Siesta Beach, is a large wildlife refuge for birds. Siesta Beach has numerous amenities like a state run visitors center complete with refreshment stands, emergency help, restrooms, and showers. This is REAl Florida. The island, Siesta Key, and the beach are natural, real Florida places not heavily landscped, over dramatized developers concepts of what a "key" or "beach" should be. If that is what you want, stick to the Florida panhandle where developers have branded their South Pacific Island image unto Florida beaches and islands.
You will encounter wildlife here. Life guards say that schools of five foot long hammerhead sharks swim past the beach several times a day. Hammerheads are not dangerous until they get six feet or longer. You might see a manatee or two. Dolphins frolick out about 100 yards or so, huge schools of small fish and schools of fish eating on them abound. Sting rays and manta rays can be seen also. Shore life is abundant too. Clams, crabs, coquina, conchs, and many more are at your fingertips.
Siesta Beach is on Siesta Key, which has woderful, natural, indigenous plants kept intact from developers bulldozers theough building codes and restrictions. Like I said, this is real Florida at it's finest. Fine homes and townhouses make up most of the islands land use. On the beach, you will find a collection of beach environment friendly hotels, condominiums, cabanas, homes, and townhomes. The "set back" rules keep the hotels from building right on the water so the beach is completely walkable from the north end to the south end.
The beach isn't the only attraction either. To the north is Longboat Key, which has restaurants, a nice shopping village, and Anna Maria at the northermost end. There is Lido Key, home of St. Armands Circle, a high end collections of boutiques and restaurants, also the Mote Aquarium which studies sharks, rescues sea turtles and houses injured manatees and dolphins for later release to the ocean. Sarasota downtown has gone through a renaissance, resurrecting the downtown shopping and dining areas and there is Marina Jacks, marina on the bay for food and shopping. The Ringling Mansion is an attraction in Sarasota which showcases the house belonging to the Ringling family of circus fame. It is gorgeous and a must see.
Back on Siesta Key we have Siesta Village, a village comprised of restaurants and shops of all kinds, also island businesses. And there is more to see on Midnight Pass Road. So there it is, Siesta Beach exposed. It is more than just a beach, it is a whole lifestyle. Check out the drum circle on Sunday evenings, and don;'t forget that this is a Sun Worshippers Mecca and as such, [U]the SUNSET should play a very important part[U] of every day that you are here. No two sunsets are the same and it puts a nice cherry on top of what was most likely an awesome day.
Have fun and remember, DONT LITTER THE BEACH. Pick up fter yourself and be an adult and recycle what needs to be recycled. Florida Recycles. It is for everyones good.
This area of south western Florida, is teeming with wildlife, and wildlife refuges. On Siesta Key, just south of Siesta Beach, is a large wildlife refuge for birds. Siesta Beach has numerous amenities like a state run visitors center complete with refreshment stands, emergency help, restrooms, and showers. This is REAl Florida. The island, Siesta Key, and the beach are natural, real Florida places not heavily landscped, over dramatized developers concepts of what a "key" or "beach" should be. If that is what you want, stick to the Florida panhandle where developers have branded their South Pacific Island image unto Florida beaches and islands.
You will encounter wildlife here. Life guards say that schools of five foot long hammerhead sharks swim past the beach several times a day. Hammerheads are not dangerous until they get six feet or longer. You might see a manatee or two. Dolphins frolick out about 100 yards or so, huge schools of small fish and schools of fish eating on them abound. Sting rays and manta rays can be seen also. Shore life is abundant too. Clams, crabs, coquina, conchs, and many more are at your fingertips.
Siesta Beach is on Siesta Key, which has woderful, natural, indigenous plants kept intact from developers bulldozers theough building codes and restrictions. Like I said, this is real Florida at it's finest. Fine homes and townhouses make up most of the islands land use. On the beach, you will find a collection of beach environment friendly hotels, condominiums, cabanas, homes, and townhomes. The "set back" rules keep the hotels from building right on the water so the beach is completely walkable from the north end to the south end.
The beach isn't the only attraction either. To the north is Longboat Key, which has restaurants, a nice shopping village, and Anna Maria at the northermost end. There is Lido Key, home of St. Armands Circle, a high end collections of boutiques and restaurants, also the Mote Aquarium which studies sharks, rescues sea turtles and houses injured manatees and dolphins for later release to the ocean. Sarasota downtown has gone through a renaissance, resurrecting the downtown shopping and dining areas and there is Marina Jacks, marina on the bay for food and shopping. The Ringling Mansion is an attraction in Sarasota which showcases the house belonging to the Ringling family of circus fame. It is gorgeous and a must see.
Back on Siesta Key we have Siesta Village, a village comprised of restaurants and shops of all kinds, also island businesses. And there is more to see on Midnight Pass Road. So there it is, Siesta Beach exposed. It is more than just a beach, it is a whole lifestyle. Check out the drum circle on Sunday evenings, and don;'t forget that this is a Sun Worshippers Mecca and as such, [U]the SUNSET should play a very important part[U] of every day that you are here. No two sunsets are the same and it puts a nice cherry on top of what was most likely an awesome day.
Have fun and remember, DONT LITTER THE BEACH. Pick up fter yourself and be an adult and recycle what needs to be recycled. Florida Recycles. It is for everyones good.
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