Type: | Shallow, Flat |
Hazards: | Animals, Buoys, None |
Quality: | Clean |
Best Tide: | Tide Independent |
Shallow and flat waters. Shoes are recommended due to sea urchins. Watch out for stone crab buoys, your lines can get tangled.
Type: | Sand |
Size: | Medium |
Hazards: | Road, Cars |
Beach Users: | None |
The sand here has some patches of grass that contains an unreal amount of sand spurs, so bring your shoes and watch where you lay down your kite.
Best Months: | No Info |
Wind Type: | Thermal Winds, Frontal Winds |
Best Direction: | NE, SE |
Main Direction: | No Info |
Winds out of the NE or SE are sideonshore here. Winds out of the East would be dead onshore and winds from the West would be offshore.
Transport: | Car |
Access: | No Walk |
From Tampa, I-275 South, crossing the Howard Frankland bridge. Continue South through St Petersburg. After you pay the toll for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, you will start watching for your exit. You do not cross the Skyway bridge, but instead exit right before it. Turn left at the stop sign at the end of exit ramp and follow the road around to the beach. Park directly next to the water.
Due to Homeland Security regulations there is a 300 yard distance restriction from the bridge which applies to watercraft, swimmers, divers, non motorized boats, kites, etc.