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Hurricane Season Information
“Hurricane Season” is from June 1st until November 1st, with the statistics showing that the months of September and October are when hurricanes are most active. Per NOAA, 2023 is looking to be uneventful as compared to previous years. However, anyone who visits our beautiful island during Hurricane Season should always check the w
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Local Lawn Care - Shady Lady Horticultural Services
Founded in 2012 by Anna Maria Island resident Joan Bowling, Shady Lady Horticultural Services provides service with a focus on the specific and unique needs of island properties. For example, sea spray can end up with plantings looking rather plain. The simple addition of salt tolerating colorful shrubs and moisture holding mulch m
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Local Lawn Care - Stewart's Landscape Management
Stewarts Landscape Management has been serving locals since 1980 with full service residential and commercial landscaping and maintenance. They provide design and construction services, grounds maintenance, plantings, holiday decorating, and specialty outdoor spaces, comprehensive all season maintenance services.
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Anna Maria Island FALL weather
Grab your beach chairs, pack up a cooler and spend the day at the beach. It is eighty six degrees outside, it’s Anna Maria Island Fall weather and the average water temperature this time of year is eighty five, and the sugar sand beaches on Anna Maria Island have never been more beautiful. Pristine beaches as far as my eyes can see
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Tampa and St. Petersburg Area Information
Looking for something to do in the Tampa and St Petersburg area? Our Tampa and St. Petersburg area information page will for sure help tick off your things to do while visiting Anna Maria Island. There are plenty of things to do like catch a ball game, or a concert, or plan to take a day trip to one of the theme parks,
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Anna Maria City Pier Celebrates 100th Birthday!
In 1911 during the beginning stages of commercial development on Anna Maria Island, one of the first steps was to build a city pier on the bay side of Anna Maria Island. The idea was to attract excursion steamers from Tampa to unload passengers on Anna Maria Island so they could enjoy everything that the Island has to o
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The Annual Desoto Heritage Festival Parade
The annual Desoto Heritage Festival Parade had a crowd of an estimated 150,000 people downtown Bradenton and along Manatee Avenue last Saturday. Manatee Avenue and other locations were completely shut down by 5:30 p.m. allowing no traffic at all, as the crowd started to pour into the streets.
Looking up at the sky a
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Marauders Baseball All Summer Long At LECOM Park.
Catch the Bradenton Marauders all summer long at LECOM Park. The Bradenton Marauders are a Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Click here and browse their online schedule.
Group tickets are also available and require a minimum of 10 people that must be booked at least 24 hours in advance. All groups wi
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Top Ten Things To Do During Your Visit To Anna Maria Island
Top Ten Things To Do!
1) Go for a bike ride along Coquina Beach.
2) Spend the day at Myakka River State Park walk the trails and watch the aligators.
3) Swimming and soaking up the sun on Holmes Beach.
4) Rent a B
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