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Beaches & Coasts 50 images Created 2 Apr 2012

Florida is famous around the world for having some of the most beautiful sandy beaches in the world with most incredible and vividly colorful sunrises and sunsets. With over 1350 miles of coastline, this gallery will feature the best of Florida's picture-perfect beaches and even some rare rocky coasts from Florida's Panhandle and entire West Coast along the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys and the East Coast from Miami all the way up past Jacksonville!
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  • Another day ends beautifully with a dazzling sunset over Apalachicola Bay on the Florida Panhandle.
    All's Well That Ends Well.....
  • A setting sun in all its glory over the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. I was trying to create a sense of drama and movement with this photograph.
    Dramatic Sunset on Cape San Blas
  • Evidence of a running bobcat on North Florida's St. Joseph Peninsula on the Gulf Coast. Here, there is a large population of these native wildcats, as well as a huge variety of resident and migratory birds. Some of the area's most endangered rodents found here burrow into these rare dunes for shelter, as you can see here.
    Bobcat Tracks across the Sand Dunes
  • An amazing sunset in a salt marsh in Estero, Florida. This shallow water was hot from the sun, and the mud could devour your shoes, but the reflection was gorgeous!
    Estero Bay Salt Marsh
  • Sabal palms in silhouette on a glorious sunset over Apalachicola Bay.
    A Sense of Place
  • A thunderstorm looms over St. Joe's Bay on the Florida Panhandle.
    St. Joe's Bay
  • A fantastic cloudscape at the beach in the evening. Nothing more beautiful than a sunset with an incoming storm on the beach!
    Mashes Sands Storm
  • A wildly orange sunset over St. George Island on the Florida Panhandle. Even though the mosquitoes were awful and something big was buzzing around my head, the end result was  very worth it.
    Tangerine Sunset
  • This beautiful sunset was photographed in North Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. The tree stumps in the water are old pine trees after hurricanes and erosion have turned the forest into coastline.
    Cape San Blas Sunset
  • Mangrove roots at dusk in Chokoluskee, Florida with the Ten Thousand Islands just beyond.
    Chokoloskee Mangroves
  • One of the most beautiful places in all of Florida - Cedar Key, at sunset.
    Sunset over Cedar Key
  • A wildly pink sunrise on a rare below-freezing winter morning over the Ochlockonee Bay on Florida's northern Gulf Coast.
    Ochlockonee Bay Sunrise
  • Sunset photographed in Bonita Springs, Florida in June 2009. It was one of those strange evening skies that was incredibly colorful and busy. Glad I was out working that night!
    Bonita Springs Sunset
  • Photograph of the Gulf of Mexico, photographed from atop one of the 25-foot dunes that parallel the coast (using the boardwalk of course - it is illegal to walk on the dunes themselves for several ecological and environmental reasons).
    St. Joseph Peninsula Dunes
  • The rising sun at Lighthouse Point on Sanibel Island.
    Sanibel Sunrise
  • After waiting and then almost giving up due to the fog, the sun burned through enough of it for me to get this shot.
    Foggy Dawn and the Burning Sun
  • Red Mangroves on an idyllic day on Sanibel Island.
    The Mangrove Coast
  • Driftwood and tree stumps on a rural beach on Cape San Blas, Florida.
    Timeless Florida Coast
  • A perfect day on Sanibel Island on Lighthouse Point.
    Sky, Sea, and Sand
  • A rare and strange formation of coquina rocks on Florida's Atlantic coast at Washington Oaks. The sky was overcast that morning and was perfect for shooting crashing waves!
    Florida's Rocky Coast
  • Red Mangroves along the edge of Hickory Island in Bonita Springs, Florida.
    Hickory Island Mangroves
  • A beautiful blue sky over Florida's St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge where the salt marshes and freshwater marshes meet.
    Clouds over St. Marks
  • Mashes Sands near the mouth of the Ochlockonee River in North Florida on the Gulf Coast.
    Clouds over Mashes Sands
  • One of the most beautiful places in all of Florida - Cedar Key, at sunset.
    Boathouse on Cedar Key
  • Salt marshes along the Florida Panhandle Coast. This brackish waterway to the Gulf of Mexico plays a key role in the life cycle of most of our marine and estuary sealife.
    Carrabelle Salt Marshes
  • Low tide at Mashes Sands on Florida's Gulf Coast. As part of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge - it is protected from development.
    Mashes Sands
  • A distant thunderhead over the Gulf of Mexico at Mashes Sands in North Florida.
    Offshore Storm
  • A perfect winter day on Captiva Island, Florida.
    Winter on Captiva Island
  • Caspersen Beach in Venice, Florida. This is one of the best beaches for finding fossils, particularly shark teeth.
    Caspersen Beach
  • Sunset on Lover's Key in Lee County, Florida. Beautiful!
    Lover's Key Sunset
  • Amazing rock formations at the Blowing Rocks Preserve on Jupiter Island, Florida. This limestone rock wall is an exposed ancient coral reef that gets pounded by the Atlantic Ocean incessantly.
    Blowing Rocks Preserve 1
  • There are holes in the wall that lead to the surface, resulting in magnificent sprays of water shooting high into the air when a wave crashes into it just right.
    Blowing Rocks Preserve 2
  • This is an amazing place to visit, and it is really hard to think that this is a Florida beach.
    Blowing Rocks Preserve 3
  • A storm brewing off of Sanibel Island.
    Sanibel Storm
  • Lover's Key in Lee County, Florida. Just in the right spot at the right time.
    Sunset at Lover's Key
  • Portrait of the beach on Sanibel Island.
    Land, Sea & Air
  • Cabbage Palm on Sanibel Island taken from a very relaxing position on the beach!
    The Best View
  • Sunset on Lover's Key in Lee County, Florida. Beautiful!
    Boating at Lover's Key
  • Sunset on Lover's Key in Lee County, Florida. Beautiful!.
    Lover's Key
  • The beautiful Florida Gulf Coast just south of Tallahassee, Florida where everything is still wild and free!
    St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
  • Red Mangroves on an idyllic day on Sanibel Island.
    The Mangrove Coast
  • Black & White image of driftwood and tree stumps on a rural beach on Cape San Blas, Florida.
    Timeless Florida Coast
  • A rare and strange formation of coquina rocks on Florida's Atlantic coast. The sky was overcast that morning and was perfect for shooting crashing waves!
    The Rocky Coast
  • Last light as the sun dips in into the Gulf of Mexico on Cape San Blas.
    Sunset on the Gulf of Mexico
  • A clear sky, yet a vibrant sunset on an early fall evening on Longboat Key.
    Longboat Key Sunset
  • It was a rare morning where the temperature dipped a few degrees below freezing, and the frost on the ground looked a lot like snow in my car’s headlights. It was so worth it, as I was rewarded with the most stunning sunrise I’ve seen in a long time! Winter often offers interesting colors and hues with the first hints of light, but this was something special….. just pure beauty in all its glory!
    Dawn Over the Salt Marsh
  • One thing you never think about when you think of Florida is sand dunes, yet on the Florida Panhandle there is a long thin finger of land that juts out into the Gulf of Mexico that is covered in high sweeping sand dunes!
    The Dunes of St. Joseph Peninsula
  • Early morning and the sun is burning through the fog over the salt marshes of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in North Florida.
    Stillness and the Salt Marsh
  • A lone palm stands of a gorgeous deserted beach on Florida's St. Joseph Peninsula on the northern Gulf Coast.
    Cabbage Palm on St. Joseph Peninsula
  • A wild sun halo on a chilly winter day on the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Tallahassee, Florida.
    Sun Halo over the Gulf of Mexico