February 6, 2010

Attractions in Florida - Clearwater Beach, Tampa Bay Area

Despite the overdeveloped beach and lined with cookie-cutter hotels, Clearwater Beach attracts visitors because of the incredible white sand beaches, a large fishing fleet and its proximity to Tampa and St. Petersburg. It 'also one of the best places for kayaking, shelling, biking and sunbathing on the beach - only for amounts that the local "attractions". If the accounts Beach Volleyball in Clearwater Beach, which is darn good, too.

The northernmostbarrier island located about 22 miles north of St. Pete Beach, 2 miles west of downtown Clearwater (a separate location on the mainland) on the Memorial Causeway (Hwy 60). From here the road to the south S Gulfview Blvd, and north to take Mandalay Ave, Clearwater important. Pier 60 is located right at the roundabout, where these three roads meet. From St. Petersburg, this is a 1 / 2 hour drive or 1 1 / 2 hours bus. Although crowded, the extent of the island's human (), only 3.5 kilometers long and is easy to obtainaround.

- Pinellas Trail

This path 47 miles of paved bike trail built on abandoned railroad CSX, which stretches from St. Petersburg to Tarpon Springs. Until today, is the longest urban trail in the country. It 'also very smooth - enough to inline skates or roller skates and bicycles smooth. There are many stops along the route, with cafes, pubs, shops, bike, skate shops and fast food. Because there on the route of the old railroad corridor bisects the site far carnied:sometimes you're in the middle of the city, partly along water courses, sometimes with orange trees, and sometimes practically on horseback through the courtyards of the people.

From Clearwater Beach International Youth Hotel, renting a bike, head across the street and head north on Fort Harrison Ave and east on Jones St. about three blocks. He gets the south end of Clearwater to Tarpon Springs section of the route. It is 13.2 miles from St Jones in Tarpon Ave

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