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The visuals (roads, homes, vegetation, beaches, water) are absolutely beautiful! What a gorgeous place to live. Or visit, which I hope to some day. So pretty! 🙂
Manasota and Casey Key are definitely two of the most beautiful islands in Florida. We hope you are able to visit one (or both) of them when you make it down to Florida!
Excellent my friends....love the drive along, very well explained.....wow...never been to Manasota Key.....didn't even know about the road along the beach.
Thanks, Greg! It's amazing how few people around here don't know about Manasota Key. I don't know how they've kept such a beautiful island a secret for this long!
Thank you guys for ALL the videos,I think wife and I have watched ALL of them,lol. We're heading back to visit Clearwater Beach for a week October 1st and will be venturing down to Pass a Grille and Anna Maria Island for a day...thanks again for the videos :)
Wow thank you so much. I think we have around 40 or so hours of videos on our channel, so watching them all is a impressive feat! We're glad to hear you'll be making back down here very soon, and we hope our videos help you to make the most of your time down here!
I moved to Sarasota in 2012 and 6 months later to St Pete hahaha, but moved back to NY homesick, Now that I’m retired I’m moving back to Sarasota… yeah I know, but I’m not party girl any more, I would love it if you did lots more Sarasota videos! ❤
We understand 100%. Sarasota was a bit too slow moving for us, but we still love going back to visit (especially Siesta Key) and often discuss moving back to Sarasota ourselves when we get older. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!
I may have missed it. But I think you were backwards on the beaches. Middle Beach, or blind pass, was where the road was washed out. Manasota Beach is on the northern end of the key by the draw bridge. Englewood Beach is by the southern end of the key. Stump Pass is a Florida state park on the southern tip of Manasota key. Also the North Jetty itself was closed because of the sidewalk being washed out from the storm.
Hi Jon. I believe we were accurate on everything we stated in the video, but yes, you are right in that the road was washed out closest to Blind Pass Road. That said, you would have to access the island from the south bridge and drive north up to Blind Pass beach to see the road from the south end. Alternatively, you can do what we did, and enter the island on the north end (going by Manasota Beach), and then continuing as far south as you can get until you reach the section of collapsed road.
One thing I learned very early on in FL, not all sand is the same. You can drive right on it in Daytona. But the sugar sand on the west coast can bury a 4 wheel drive to the frame in a hundred feet. Or in my case a 1970 mustang in about 10 feet. AAA is also a nice thing to have in FL.
Very true. And sometimes the sand can vary considerably within just a few miles. LOL yeah a powdery sand beach is probably not the best place to drive a Mustang, but I bet you had fun until buried it! My dad still has his '67 fastback that he bought when he was a teenager. Awesome cars!
@@Explorcation When I was in pensacola I came across a washed out road. It was a long way back and such a short drive across the sand to the pavement…. Nope nope nope. Learned my lesson.
Wish you would have checked the southern half of manasota key. Side note, that same stretch of road washed out a few years back Debbue? Irma? Can't remember. MwasntbIan, still repairing my house from that one.
Yeah, we wish we would have had time to explore the south end of the island too. We hadn't realized the road had been washed out once recently. I wonder if there's a possibility that they don't even repair it this time.
that hurricane destruction is amazing!....and the hurricane didn't even make landfall anywhere near there!.....thanks for showing it.......another great video...
Thank you! It really is amazing how much of a storm surge a hurricane that far away from the coast can still cause. We've had hurricanes much closer that actually sucked the water out into the gulf. If there's one thing we've learned about hurricanes, is that each one is completely different than the last.
The most damage I noticed by Sarasota were the shrubs and many dunes looking burnt and sparse compared to normal. Also, I have pictures of North Lido beach a week after the storm that there were huge craters in the sand that looked like pictures of the moon. I’m glad I got those pictures because the next day after my visit the sand was smooth. They must’ve plowed it smooth again.
Thanks so much for sharing. The dunes tend to be where we saw the majority of the damage from Idalia as well. It would have been really interesting to see North Lido in that state before they made it smooth again.
Beautiful, Siesta Key is a one of the most beautiful beaches in the country. Yeah, erosion can be nasty as that torn up road indicates. Don’t bother to build another one there. That was a gopher tortoise 🐢. They live in dens in sandy areas of Florida. Mid-Florida used to be an ancient beach, so there’s that kind of sand there like at Lake Wales Ridge…etc.
You sure won't get any argument from us on that one! We've been wondering if they will even bother trying to re-build that road again... it seems like just a matter of time before it will get washed out again if they do. Thanks for sharing the info on the Gopher and the sand... very interesting!
No, the road definitely is not rebuilt already. I'm not sure if they've decided for certain if the road will be reconstructed yet or not. You can still drive up and down 90% of the island, but you can't drive all the way from one end to another (you have to leave the island on one bridge and re-enter it on another).
I have lived in Florida now for about 30 years. The state is now expecting the Feds to pay for beach restoration every year not the 3 to 5 years in the past. That hurricane was over 100m offshore & it did that much erosion? Time for the Feds to tell the state ongoing beach restoration is now up to you 100% going forward. If the Feds have to pay any future beach restoration then nobody owns the whole beach (All Americans do).
