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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.

Sand Key, Florida Surfing Gallery: The first week of January.

With the water temperature hovering right around 52 degrees and air in the low 50s, the middle of the day, the time when it was warmest, was the time to surf.   Compared to a lot of the country it was another beautiful day in paradise in west Florida.  The low that produced this surf started out in the Gulf of Mexico. It crossed over the southern part of the state and emerged into the Atlantic. After entering the Atlantic it traveled along the east coast until smashing into the northeast. Areas like Maine were pummeled by this winter nor’easter blizzard. Continue reading Sand Key, Florida Surfing Gallery: The first week of January.