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In a previous blog entry I wrote about the travel day from Sanibel. These incursions are attractive to people who, for several weeks or months on the island, who came to change their decor.

To add another goal —- and that surprised us during our trip yesterday —- it Venice is the city.

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nearly a dozen years since we visited the town, even if a proper infrastructure was 12 years ago was, he was a bit too provincial to win a tenant or owner of the island paradise of Sanibel.

during this decade, more than two between the two, coupled with the great Palm Boulevard, Venice Avenue, is quite complicated. The grid city is now reinforced by the fine shops, good restaurants and several glaciers. It is a wonderful place to stroll and new benches dot the city center, surrounded by flowers, the burden of ice to relax baby.

investigate this evolution is not a coincidence. The development plan was created in 1920 by John Nolen, one of the nation planner first city. Nolen, city planner, designed before such a specialty of his association with Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape architect, New York’s Central Park, the cities on the functions of “habitable”. >

addition to the wonderful environment in the city, it is a really beautiful natural beach just minutes from downtown. Caspersen Beach Park is located south of downtown Venice, located at the south end of Harbor Drive. There is no fee to enter or your car. The south end of Harbor Drive is very scenic. The dunes block the view of golf in most places, but they are pretty cool in itself.

Caspersen Beach is a good place to look for shark teeth as desired that Venice is known.

Venice has played in numerous publications such as the capital “Shark’s Tooth of the World”. He organizes an annual festival, the Shark’s Tooth Festival, every year the abundance of fossilized shark teeth, which can be found to celebrate its banks.

to find elsewhere, shark teeth on the beach, many large teeth diving off the coast or through the Numerous excavations in deposits over Shell are allowed dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway.

Beach renourishment efforts

also brought new sand from a few thousand meters from the coast, causing new, but less, shark teeth fossilized. The teeth of the area can vary in size from one eighth inch to 3 inches, and sometimes even more.

So you take when you feel “Iceland Fever” after a few months ago on Sanibel, the first five hours drive north and visit Venice for the day. It is a satisfying experience and different ~!