Monday, May 3, 2010

Treasure Island at sunset





I was having fish and chips at Caddy's at the Treasure Island Beach on the east side of St. Petersburg and the sun is going down and I just took this shot. Sariah and I love to swim in this water. Donna and Steve stayed at Madiera beach which is up the coast a little from Treasure Island. If you travel from the north Madiera beach then along the coast you come to John's Pass Beach and then Treasure Island, and then on down to St. Petersburg Beach. You think you are going along a continuous line of coast as you take the Gulf Blvd from one beach to the other, but you really are traveling through a lot of outer islands that are joined with bridges and causeways and you never even know that you are going from one to the other. A map is really the only way you can tell you are passing from one to the other. Hence the different names for each beach, because originally you would have boated from one beach to the other along the coast. Have no idea who the man is, but I wanted to get the color of the water for some painting I am doing and the sand really is quite white though looks a little gray in this picture, but that is just the lighting from the sun in the background.