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Take a Dip

The Ultimate Guide to Our Area's Sandbars

06/24/2024 By Hannah Wallace Photography by Everett Dennison

Insider's Guide

Everything You Need to Know About Sarasota's Award-Winning Beaches

12/05/2020 By Pam Daniel

Parks to Play In

Five Wonderful Preserves to Explore

11/01/2020

High Times

With a New Terminal, New Businesses and Lots of Wealthy Travelers, Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Is Soaring

05/30/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Down a Lazy River

Your Guide to Tubing at Four of Florida's Coolest Springs

09/02/2019

Wet and Wild

Six Saltwater Sports You Have to Try

09/05/2023 By Hannah Wallace

In Full Flower

Selby Gardens Announces 2025-2026 Programming

The gardens will open its 2025 Orchid Show next month with an installation by British contemporary artist Rebecca Louise Law. Plus: "Flowers and Friendship" from Lynn Goldsmith and Patti Smith, and more.

12:22pm By Staff

Making a Splash

Randy and the Dolphins

Marine scientist Randall Wells knows Sarasota’s dolphins better than anyone in the world. Just don’t ask him to read their minds.

09/05/2025 By Isaac Eger

Mosquito Buzz

You’re Not Imagining It. Mosquitoes Are Getting Worse Here.

More than 80 mosquito species call Florida home, and each mosquito species has different habitat preferences.

09/03/2025 By Isaac Eger

Birds of a Feather

Sarasota Audubon Society Bird Naturalist Helen King Thinks Everyone Should Know More About Our Feathered Friends

The Celery Fields is the third most popular destination in the state of Florida.

09/01/2025 By Lauren Jackson

Fossil Fuel

At Relic Reef, You Could Find a Megalodon Tooth and So Much More

Relic Reef just opened in Myakka City.

08/29/2025 By Lauren Jackson

The Prince of Tides

A Beach Clean-Up Honors the Late Rich Schineller's Love of Sarasota's Shoreline

The sunset gathering on Aug. 5 on Siesta Key will honor Schineller, who died of blood cancer in 2023, with stories and service by the sea he loved.

07/30/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Flashback

In 1937, a Local Man Caught a 2,500-Lb. Shark Just Off Longboat Key

Edgar Green caught the massive animal while fishing alone in the Gulf.

07/21/2025 By Megan McDonald

Creature Encounters

All the Wildlife You'll Spot on the Myakka River

You'll see alligators, for sure—but also fish, turtles, river otters, manatees, bobcats, deer and raccoons.

07/17/2025 By Miri Hardy

Dune Duty

A New Volunteer Initiative Aims to Plant 12,000 Sea Oats in Manatee County

Keep Manatee Beautiful is looking for 300 volunteers to help plant sea oats along the dunes of Anna Maria Island in an effort to shore up the natural protections between the island and the water.

07/16/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Only in Sarasota

Bird Talk at Sarasota Jungle Gardens

Scarlet macaw Alberta is known for her sweet temperament, beautiful tail feathers, and a love of wooden toys, neck rubs and making a mess.

07/14/2025 By John Pirman

Popular Content

    Randy and the Dolphins

    At Relic Reef, You Could Find a Megalodon Tooth and So Much More

    You’re Not Imagining It. Mosquitoes Are Getting Worse Here.

    Sarasota Audubon Society Bird Naturalist Helen King Thinks Everyone Should Know More About Our Feathered Friends

    The Best of Sarasota 2025

    Should Florida Exterminate or Accommodate Invasive Species?

Wild and Scenic

Kayaking the Myakka River

Our Gulf beaches are world famous, but Sarasota has another great body of water—the Myakka, celebrating its 40th anniversary as Florida’s only “Wild and Scenic River.”

07/10/2025 By John McCarthy

Flashback

Photo: Sarasota Sun-Debs, 1949

Photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz captured this scene that year, which shows a ballet instructor giving the Sun-Debs a movement lesson on the sunny shores of Lido Beach.

07/03/2025 By Megan McDonald

Mango Mecca

The Mango's Deep Roots in America Started in Manatee County

More than 140 years ago, some of the first mango trees in America were established in Bradenton.

07/02/2025 By Isaac Eger

Swim Meet

What It's Like to Swim With the Stingrays at the St. Regis Longboat Key

Get up close and personal with stingrays and marine animals at The St. Regis Longboat Key’s Under the Sea lagoon.

07/02/2025 By Megan McDonald

☠️☠️☠️

Is Sarasota Trying to Kill Us?

A new study finds that our city is the deadliest place in the U.S. to visit in the summer.

07/01/2025 By Megan McDonald

Birds of a Feather

How to Keep Our Nesting Shorebirds Safe During Fourth of July Celebrations

"It's important to share our shores," says Evan Powers, Audubon Florida's Sarasota stewardship coordinator.

06/26/2025 By Megan McDonald

Flying High

SRQ Airport Names New President and CEO

Paul Hoback Jr. is the executive vice president and chief development officer for Allegheny County Airport Authority, which oversees Pittsburgh International Airport. He replaces SRQ's retiring president and CEO Rick Piccolo.

06/24/2025 By Megan McDonald

'Tis The Season

Selby Gardens' 'Queen of the Night' Cactus Will Bloom Soon

The gardens will host a one-night-only viewing party so they public can watch the cactus' flowers open, which only happens one night every year.

06/02/2025 By Staff

High Times

With a New Terminal, New Businesses and Lots of Wealthy Travelers, Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Is Soaring

Remembering the old airport and looking ahead to its high-flying future.

05/30/2025 By Kim Doleatto

The Flying SUV

Some People Buy a Car and Call It Freedom. Jesse Biter Bought a Jet.

He calls his Embraer Phenom 100 a “Suburban in the sky.”

05/30/2025 By Kim Doleatto

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