Florida Beaches

Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach is a city located in Volusia County, Florida, USA. As of 2004, the population estimates recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau have rated it as 64,422. It comprises a mainland and a peninsula separated by the Intra coastal Waterway, locally called the Halifax River. The peninsula comprises the world-famous beach along the Atlantic Ocean. In 1927, during the early days of racing on the beach, one of the city's founding father's created the slogan, "The World's Most Famous Beach". Today, over eight million tourists flock around Daytona Beach each year to enjoy the beach and the city's events.

Daytona Beach is a wide beach with smooth sands has been open to drivers for many years and was also used for the high-speed testing and racing of cars and motorcycles. This made the beach a Mecca for racing enthusiasts and the city is now home to the Daytona International Speedway (a conventional racetrack founded by William France, which replaced the famous beach course in 1959). Close to the Speedway and adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a world-class university to train the pilots and aviation professionals.

The city is a popular vacation destination, especially for college students on spring break, a "special event" period. The city also is home to Daytona Beach Community College, Bethune-Cook man College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Keiser College .Currently, motor vehicle driving and parking is still permitted on certain sections of the beach, which is fully lined with hotels, motels, condominiums and houses. There is a wide variety of accommodations in all price ranges. Hotel and motel rooms are in plentiful except during special events, which also include winter Speed Weeks, summer NASCAR races, Bike Week, Biketoberfest and Black College Reunion (BCR). During the motorcycle events (Bike Week and Biketoberfest) several hundreds and thousands of bikers from all over the world visit the greater Daytona Beach area.

wResidence On Daytona Beach Campus

Over 1,000 students take up residence on-campus in the $29 million Student Village residence complex near the outskirts of campus. Four dormitory halls as well as extensive food services are contained within this building. Doolittle Hall, concrete and cinder block building are in the shape "T", house freshmen. Due to its small windows and thick construction, Doolittle is also classified as a Category for hurricane shelter. There is also a volley ball court on the northeast side.

McKay Hall is the one of the oldest of the current residence halls, it houses all student levels. Three freshmen or two upperclassmen students are assigned with each room, due to the low population of women students they are often housed two per a room in McKay, with each suite composed of two rooms joined in a "common area." McKay Hall is similar to an old roadside hotel, and is often the butte of jokes among the students who live there.

wFood On Daytona Beach Campus

Students can use a variety of ways to pay for food on campus which include: Eagle Dollars, Riddle Bucks, Meal Plans, and Cash.

Campus Eating Facilities Include:

v The Student Center Cafeteria
v The Landing Strip
v The Student Village "Ultimate Dining"
v Einstein Brother's Bagels
v Propellers

The Student Center Cafeteria is situated in the center of campus and serves meals, as well as sandwiches and breakfast foods. This cafeteria holds the largest number of students with all the eating facilities, and often doubles as a theater for campus movies, or a stage for campus events.

The Landing Strip serves subs, chicken wings, and certain varieties of oriental food. While it is co-located with the Student Center Cafeteria, the Landing Strip's operation hours are longer.

The Student Village Cafeteria serves an array of buffet-style meals, sandwiches, and breakfast foods. It is located on the ground level in the Student Village.

Propellers are generally regarded as the most remote eatery on campus. Exceptional quality of burgers, wraps, and Caesar salads offered here attracts many students day by day.

Cocoa Beach

Cocoa Beach is a city situated in Brevard County, Florida. The 2000 census report suggests that the city had a total population of 12,482. In 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 12,588.

Located on a barrier island nestled between the great Atlantic Ocean and the Banana River Lagoon on Florida's Central East Coast, Cocoa Beach continues to link the birth of the Space Age with the wonders of the futurist just six miles long and mostly less than one mile wide. Cocoa Beach is truly a unique and strange place! Where else it enhances you to choose between watching a space launch from the beach or precious marine and bird species in their natural habitat? Or choose between a swim in the ocean or a quiet kayak exploration off the Banana River islands from our river shore? Play a round of golf at our 27-hole golf course, surf cast from the beach for dinner or just fulfill your dreams of a day at the beach where you will interested in watching the dolphins at play or be lucky enough to see an occasional whale in migration. Greatly regarded as the surfing capitol of the East Coast, Cocoa Beach is the hometown of a number of surfing champions - including six-time world champ Kelly Slater.

The primary attraction to Cocoa Beach is the weather. With its coastal location between the two climatic zones (sub-tropic and temperate) have weather conditions usually normal without reaching extremes. This unique location thus attracts wide varieties of wildlife indigenous to both climatic zones as well as coastal and migratory species. And, of course, our weather, beaches and local amenities attract human visitors as well. Many of the residents to Cocoa Beach as visitors and frequently spotted here!

Cocoa Beach is a residential community and a tourist venue. Our base population is 12,800 our population though swells to as high as approximately 30,000 during the tourist season when hotels, motels, timeshares and condominium rentals are fulfilled. In addition, Cocoa Beach is the place for another 2.4 million-day visitors per year. Cocoa Beach is the primary tourist destination on the Florida Space Coast. It is also home to an active retire population, many of who devoted their careers to our nation's space program. Visitors and residents enjoy the casual beach lifestyle happily.

Ormand Beach

Originally named as New Britain, after the Connecticut home of early settlers, the name was changed in 1880 to honor an early plantation owner. John and Charles Bostrom built a modest home and rented rooms to travelers and settlers. This merged to be Ormond Beach's destiny. The first bridge across the Halifax River and the impending arrival of the St. Johns and Halifax Railroad, the time was right for development. George Penfield (age 14) won the competition for designing 75 rooms Ormond Hotel and golf course. As railroad was making his own way down from the North, John Anderson and Joseph D.Price set about building the Ormond Hotel hence both leading the way through great stages of development. A great success drew giants of American industry from the cold, Northern winters and their wealth made anything possible. Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton were two of the first racers on the hard packed sand - dead beating down the beach at 57 MPH. Forerunners in the community, Anderson and Price then organized the first auto races on the beach. By 1904, the Florida East Coast Automobile Association boasted 200 members with names like Vanderbilt, Flagler, Astor, and Gould among them. John D.

Rockefeller, the most a prominent visitor to the hotel is a devotee of golf course bought the nearby Huntington property called "Casements". Having survived vandalism and a couple of fire casements is today "Ormond Beach Community Enrichment Center."

Welcome To Ormond Beach

Our city is clearly marked as one of the finest coastal communities in the State of Florida. Whether you desire coming here for a visit or relocating your company to our "sparkling city by the sea", Ormond Beach is one of an excellent choice.
Families with children, young professionals, and retirees all find life in Ormond Beach very pleasant and rewarding. Ormond Beach was recently rated as one of the top 100 cities regarded by National Strategy Group.

This interactive web site about Ormond Beach is designed to provide you with information and idea about our community, its Chamber of Commerce, and the surrounding areas and spots of interest located within. This site is designed to provide you with an opportunity to let us know how we can better assist and help you for your migration and other details.

Panama City Beach

Panama City Beach in Florida is one of the well-known and most beloved beach resorts in the world. Beach goers come to Panama City Beach just to relax on its clean, white, sandy beaches and to participate in every imaginable water sport activity including scuba diving and fishing, and even to enjoy some of the hottest party spots. Panama City Beach's slogan is "The World's Most Beautiful Beaches."

Panama City Beach is located in the Florida Panhandle where other vacation and travel opportunities are surrounded. The City of Panama City Beach is approximately 16 square miles located along the Gulf of Mexico in Florida’s Great Northwest. The City is populated by over 7000 permanent residents and it is estimated that an average of 25,000 people visit this place each and every day. The City government comprises of four at-large council members and a mayor and it operates a police department of over 60 officers and a fire department with 22 experts and professionals. The City has experienced an 8% growth rate each year and is made up of a diverse population. Community life is supported with three elementary schools, a middle school and high school; various recreational spots and social areas including parks, senior and youth centers, golf courses, and a fishing pier; a branch of the Bay County library; and numerous medical, vision, and dental offices. The City is a home of worship/gathering sites of many denominations and an abundance of financial institutions.

Outside of a very small beach on Naos Island, there are no beaches in the city appropriate for swimming which make the place quite boring for beach lovers. Visitors might see the occasional urchin taking a dip during high tide, but they should beware: the waters are extremely polluted. However, within a few hours drive there are many isolated beaches, particularly on the Caribbean side. In recent years real estate development has reduced the number of these beaches, although most these are still suitable for general recreation. Farther afield, visitors can travel to beaches to the interior such as Bocas del Toro and the Archipiélago de las Perlas in the Gulf of Panama.

Clearwater Beach

Is just a short 2-mile drive from downtown Clearwater along the beautifully landscaped Clearwater Memorial Causeway famously Known for it's broad, white beaches. Clearwater Beach is a very popular destination for visitors and locals alike. From Pier 60 to the Sand Key Bridge, there is no lack of activities and resorts to keep you occupied. Some of Clearwater and Clearwater Beach's most popularised activities include the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Shepard's Tiki Bar, Captain Memo's Pirate ship, and the Clearwater Marina with its large fleet of fishing and sightseeing boats. Sand Key Park is over the bridge, and was named as one of the top 20 beaches in the country by Dr. Beach. The park is known as one of the areas best kept secrets.

Clearwater is a city situated in central Pinellas County, Florida, nearly due west of Tampa. As of the 2000 census, the city holds a total population of 108,787 according to the 2004 U.S. Census Bureau's estimates, however the city's population fell slightly to 108,606. It is the county seat of Pinellas County.GR6 it is one of the three large cities that constitute the Tampa Bay Area region.

Clearwater is located in Pinellas County on the West Coast of Florida in the US. We are on the Pinellas Peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico on the west and Tampa Bay on the east. Our geographic latitude is 27.57 N and longitude 82.48 W.

Present-day Clearwater was originally the home of the Timucuan, Calusa and Apalachee tribal communities. Around 1835, the U.S. Army began construction of Fort Harrison as an outpost during the Seminole wars. The fort was placed on a bluff overlooking Clearwater Harbor in an area known today as Harbor Oaks. University of South Florida archeologists excavated the site in 1977 after Alfred C. Wyllie developed an underground ammunition bunker digging a swimming pool on his estate.

The area's population grew in 1842, after the Federal Armed Occupation Act of 1842 offered 160 acres to anyone who would bear arms and cultivate the land. Former habitats included the Stevens, Stevenson and McMullen families, who claimed and farmed large tracts of land. Prior to 1906, the area was known as Clear Water Harbor. The name "Clear Water" is thought to have originated from a fresh water spring flowing from the City Hall building located today. There were many other freshwater springs that dotted the bay front, many in the bay itself, which were the reason the crystal clear water found there.

Miami Beach

Miami Beach is a city spotted in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The 2000 census report suggests that the city had a total population of 87,933. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 89,104. Our South Beach Hotels Guide for 2005, with blue skies, turquoise waters, and art deco hotels gleaming in the sun. Most hotels in South Beach offer specially discounted net Rates for the winter season.

To experience the striking feature of Miami Beach is yours and depends on your plan to stay at the Miami Beach Marina. Located adjacent to Government Cut, with no fixed bridges and bounty of deep water zones, Miami Beach Marina affords easy accessibility to great fishing, sailing, and cruising. The famous Art Deco District is nearby with exclusive shopping spots and the nightlife of trendy South Beach.

Our 400 boat slips provide plenty of dock space in South Florida for vessels up to 250 feet. Slips are complete with fresh water, electricity, telephone and cable hook-ups and the rates are affordable. And for your convenience, we now have online reservation form available and other information’s for your stay in our place.

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Sea World
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