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While searching for Anna Maria Island related history, we came across an old phograph of the Anna Maria City Pier.
The pier in the photo to the right is located in Anna Maria City.
The original part of the pier was built in 1911 by Will Bean. This picture was taken after the pier had been enlarged.
The pier had to be enlarged in order to accomodate the large passenger steamers and groups of excursionists that were coming to visit Anna Maria Island.
if you're planning a tirp to Anna Maria Island and you're not sure yet where you will stay, think vacation rental.
Sure, hotels are OK, but if you really want to experience a Gulf Island vacation worth remembering, your accommodations are key... and the first step to ensuring that you and your family enjoy a vacation of a life time!
Vacation rentals have lots to offer when compared to spending your hard earned vacation in a hotel room.
To learn more about why a vacation rental home is your best option when traveling to Anna Maria Island, Anna Maria Island Accommodations has set up an article section on their website with links to articles of interest to anyone planning a trip to beautuful Anna Maria Island.
The skeletal remains of a 47-million-year-old lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US.
The fossil is so well preserved, you can actually make out the outline of its fur and see traces of its last meal.
Being the size of a small cat with four long legs and a long tail, could this find be an indication of what our ancestors looked like?
Missing Link To Human Evolution?
Some have hailed the creature as the "missing link" between today's higher primates - monkeys, apes and humans - and more distant relatives. Could such a discovery help fill in the evolutionary gaps and illuminate the early evolution of primates?
Some independent experts on the subject are sceptical and saying, "not so quick", as they await an opportunity to see the new fossil first hand and make up their minds for themselves.
Here, in a David Attenborough-narrated BBC programme, Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor, the fossil is revealed in virtual reality... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8057977.stm.
Using native landscaping in historic setting to help demonstrate how to incorporate native plants into a residential environment.
The Anna Maria Island Historical Society is attempting to set an axample for the residence of Anna Maria Island when it comes to incorporating the use of native plants when landscaping residential lots in the citiy.
According to Historical Society members, There is a lack of awareness and aesthetic appreciation for native plants relative to their water conservation, wildlife food source benefits, habitat creation, and replacement value for lawns that consume water, are treated with chemicals that run into the surrounding water, and create grass clippings that add negative nutrients to these waters.
At the Anna Maria Island Historical Society Complex, property owned by Anna Maria City, there is currently a public works buildings with a maintenance yard and the Historical Society Museum. Also on the site is the recently moved and restored historic Belle Haven Cottage.
Since we began this Anna Maria Island Life Blog way back in 2007, we have continued to publish information and articles about the local sea turtle issues including information about turtle nesting season and what we can do to help ensure the survival our beloved friends... the Anna Maria Island sea turtles.
The local Turtle Watch is integral to the survival of these amazing sea creatures that have survived so very long and we would like to thank them and all their volunteers and their efforts.
Without the Turtle Watch the journey from sea to sand and back to sea again would be a much more perilous one for sure.
What follows is a list of links that will take you to the many different posts we have on this blog about sea turtles and how you can help them survive. They are there to inform and help you help the sea turtles.
Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed publishing them.
It's hard to imagine anyone coming to Anna Maria Island and not having a good time and enjoying their stay.
Having a good time is easy, but for many, "enjoying the stay" starts with the perfect anna maria island vacation rental accommodations.
Of course, if you have been to Anna Maria Island and rented your vacation home from Anna Maria Island Accommodations, then you already know just how easy it is to get that perfect vacation rental. Here is what Susan had to say.
It's pretty typical of the testimonials we recieve from satisfied Anna Maria Island Accommodation clients.
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With this years sea turtle nesting season upon us, we thought it appropriate to remind our visitors that the local Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch is once again going to be conducting their Morning Nesting Beach Tours of Anna Maria Island.
Morning Nesting Beach Tours of Anna Maria Island are conducted during the early morning hours of June, July & August.
Please contact Turtle Watch to make a reservation at 941 778 5638.
Remember, Good Beach Etiquette Saves Turtles
"Turtle Watch" says to always use good beach Etiquette. Nesting sea turtles depend on dark, quiet beaches to reproduce successfully. Today these turtles are endangered, in part because they must compete with tourists, businesses and coastal residents to use the beach.
Man-made, coastal development results in artificial lighting on the beach that discourages female sea turtles from nesting and can disorient hatchlings causing them to wander away from the beach where they often die of dehydration, predation, or even from being being run over on Gulf Dr.
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