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Enclosures, beachgoers, nature knows best - Anna Maria Islander
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The year in review - Anna Maria Islander
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Glad youâre here, Tampa Bay tourists. But might we help you visit like a local?
Florida can have a strained relationship with the tourists (and their wallets) who visit us by the millions. A few tips from a native on how to love it like a local.
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We here in Florida love our tourists.
Still, a rather harsh bumper sticker made the rounds a few years back: âHappiness is 100,000 Canadians heading home with a New Yorker under each arm,â it said. And, ouch.
The sentiment speaks for the sometimes strained relationship the Sunshine State can have with its perennial visitors â some who are gracious guests, others we wish would learn to love it like we do. And right now people seem particularly eager to come here post-coronavirus confinement, considering the crowds we saw Memorial Day weekend.
Bortie, one of the area’s most famous loggerhead sea turtles, could be on her way home.
No one’s seen Bortie since she was satellite tagged on June 19, 2018, on Coquina Beach, but she has recently been tracked to about 50 miles west of Anna Maria Island and turtle watchers are hopeful she will return to familiar sands in the next few months to nest.
Since roughly 100 people watched her waddle out to the Gulf of Mexico about three years ago as a tagged turtle, she has spent much of her time near Ten Thousand Islands, 153 miles to the south of Anna Maria Island. The islands are a prime feeding spot for sea turtles.
Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is monitoring the Piney Point environmental crisis.
AMITW is watching for how polluted, nutrient-rich water from a reservoir at the defunct Piney Point plant site is moving through Tampa Bay, said executive director Suzi Fox.
AMITW is a nonprofit focused on collecting data on sea turtles, listed as threatened and endangered in Florida, depending on the species.
The nonprofit also is keeping in contact with Manatee County and state officials, including at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
“The FWC is working closely with our partners regarding the Piney Point discharge response in Manatee County. The FDEP is the lead agency in response to this issue,” Amanda Nalley of the FWC’s Marine Fisheries Management division wrote April 7 in an email.
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