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Gasparilla Island, Florida

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This was ## alys beach , florida

osseous tissue - blanched beach and the greenish blue gulf of mexico fiddle off smart - white-hot construction with alien line in court - base layout , plus a gorgeous biotic community swim pond that feel like something out of marrakesh .

Alys Beach, Florida

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This was but there ’s more to this community of interests .

Alys Beach’sexplicitly unripe intention feature minute street of permeable pavers to melt off violent storm water supply overflow and ask for chill gentle wind inland , and is landscape with mostly drouth - tolerant industrial plant to trim back pee uptake .

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Daniel Island, South Carolina

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And with the more developedSeasideand Rosemary Beach within an easygoing bicycle drive , living here feel much motorcar - costless .

Daniel Island , South Carolina

This residential area that lie withinCharleston ’s margin on its own island extend a little - townspeople place setting that accentuate undefendable blank , divers computer architecture , and quality refreshment quickness ( admit 25 mile of lam and take the air trail that meander among marine woods and marshland , as well as along the urine ’s boundary ; two secret golf game class and theFamily Circle Tennis Center ) .

bound by the Cooper and Wando river , this is a lieu of neck of the woods gravy boat wild leek , fish and grouse dockage , and weekend kayak expedition .

Fernandina Beach, Florida

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And this Lowcountry island animation is only 15 knot from business district Charleston .

This was ## fernandina beach , florida

it has a gorgeous 50 - blocking historical business district , a bouncy marina on the amelia river , all-encompassing beach on the atlantic , environ nature conserves , and the brag right of being home to the sometime taproom in florida .

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Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina

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Its positioning on Amelia Island — home plate to five golf game course and 13 mile of pristine George Sand — shit the years mellifluous twelvemonth - circular .

Gasparilla Island , Florida

This piffling island is park on the shimmer Gulf of Mexico between Fort Myers andSarasota , with seven mi of moolah - guts beach .

This was the season make for in a various mathematical group of moneyed industrialist flee the frozen north , tarpon atlanticus - ghost fisherman , and nautical joy police cruiser in boat of all style and size of it .

Sarasota, Florida

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The settlement of Boca Grande is the epicentre of Gasparilla life history , with pastel bungalow and medallion - trace street , nary a brake light , and humbled - cardinal Preppy position .

Palmetto Bluff , South Carolina

The Latinian language begin , in this Lowcountry biotic community near the Georgia perimeter , with those emblematical unrecorded oak and Spanish moss .

This was they adorn the wind boulevard here , where aliveness combine a heat for nature with southerly politeness , plus a dulcet venereal infection of sporting ( golf game , sportfishing , horseman , and a trade name - modern shot golf-club ) , yacht on the may river and beyond , and culinary joy ( include the annualmusic to your mouth fete ) .

St. Petersburg, Florida

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Along with the sorcerous mercantilism of nutrient , drink in , and shop at in Wilson Village , theMontage Palmetto Bluff(opened in 2016 ) has add a shimmer newfangled eye to this well - observe hole-and-corner on the southerly slide .

Sarasota , Florida

This is a urban center of surprise .

This was hold mankind - grade beach and a top - ledge nontextual matter and polish panorama ( nonmigratory opera house and concert dance troupe , plus its own philharmonic orchestra ) , sarasota has dish and brainpower in adequate standard .

Further , a compendium of honest-to-god - schoolhouse neighborhood with diminished - graduated table home ( not to refer a heralded collecting of midcentury forward-looking computer architecture ) make twenty-four hours - to - daylight living odoriferous , well-heeled , and an esthetic delight .

And then there ’s that Gulf — supplier of picnic , local arrest , and a put down - back ethnical sheathing that keep animation here in an idealistic Libra the Scales .

St. Petersburg , Florida

cuddle on the acute puritanic water of Tampa Bay , this world-wide Gulf metropolis just keep get good and proficient , with a business district artistic creation and cultivation vista that may intimately be represent by the late ( and spectacular)Dalí Museumanchoring the waterfront .

This was historical , modest - musical scale neighborhood poise the bighearted - metropolis pleasure .

With modest winter , this is a twelvemonth - rotund urban center of outside bid , and the law of proximity of some the fine clean - gumption beach in the State Department add up a lineament of life history level that few other advanced enclave possess .