Guide to St. Augustine
Our Guide To St. Augustine Attractions
St. Augustine Florida BeahesOver the years we’ve spent quite a few days visiting St. Augustine tourist attractions. To separate the wheat from the chaff, we’ve drawn up a list of preferred sites (as well as ones we didn’t like so well.) We don’t pretend to speak for all tourist and travelers. Some folks love saltwater taffy, tacky T-shirts, tourist traps, and more power to them. We enjoy such things ourselves, albeit ironically and in small doses.
We’ve compiled this list with our idealized traveler in mind. This person is (like us) reasonably well-educated and curious, appreciative of history and art, and casts a fairly jaundiced eye at the trivialization of culture and insistent consumer arm-twisting that goes on in tourist towns. With that in mind, here we go:
Florida is a 447-mile-long peninsula that possesses the longest tidal coastline in the lower 48 states. Incredibly, Florida has more miles of sandy beaches than California. As the crow flies, Florida claims 1,800 miles of coastline, and 1,100 miles of that are sand beaches. When all the undulations around bays and inlets are figured in, Florida’s shoreline totals 8,462 miles.
Because the state is bounded by water, Florida can be said to have several coastlines: the East Coast (facing the Atlantic Ocean); the Keys (extending into the Straits of Florida); and the Gulf Coast (on the Gulf of Mexico), which includes Florida’s West Coast and Panhandle-not to mention the interior elbow know as the “Big Bend.”
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