Have You Visited Bradenton Beach

Bradenton Beach, one of three communities on Anna maria Island is a vibrant waterfront community of about 1,500 residents. This charming beach village sits at the southern end of Anna Maria Island, just North of Longboat Key, where Sarasota Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico.

Laid back, friendly and open-hearted, Bradenton Beach welcomes visitors and new residents with equal warmth.

With miles of sugary white sand beaches on the gulf-side, Bradenton Beach is an ideal waterfront community if what you want is the casual ambiance of a secluded village. While Gulfside homes have gorgeous sunset views, natural mangroves accentuate the Sarasota Bay side of Bradenton Beach.

Here you can sail on warm Florida Gulf waters with steady winds off Bean Point or enjoy some exhilarating kite surfing just south of the Beach House Restaurant in Bradenton Beach. Go parasailing or snorkeling. Go scuba diving on reefs just off shore of Anna Maria Island for giant grouper. Fish from the popular City Pier or hop aboard a charter fishing boat to go after tarpon, dolphin and sailfish. For the more sedate, while away the day paddling through mangroves or collecting shells on beautifully white beaches
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In the middle of Bradenton Beach, just back from the beach, is a charming village famous for its ultra-casual beach combing lifestyle. Seaside inns and “Old Florida” cottages have been fastidiously preserved. Residential choices on the island vary from classic to modern, from bungalow to beach villa. All enjoy an unspoiled natural beauty and a casual and friendly, laid-back lifestyle. What a grand place to spend a seasonal get-a-way now, and then when it's time, to while away your retirement years.

If you would like to know more about Bradenton Beach waterfront homes or about our white sand beaches, shopping and dining, I'd be happy to show you around this wonderful island community.

I invite you to learn more about the entire Bradenton Florida area including this wonderfully casual community of Bradenton Beach on Anna Maria Island. Request my Bradenton Florida Real Estate Information Package. For more immediate assistance, call me directly at 941-228-2321 or at my RE/MAX Office at 941-360-7777.

Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Coming to Sarasota

Sarasota County and the Baltimore Orioles have reached a tentative agreement for the team to do spring training at Ed Smith Stadium for the next 30 years. After almost 60 years of preseason baseball in the Miami - Fort Lauderdale area, the Orioles will be in Sarasota beginning in the Spring of 2010.

The $31.2 million deal will be funded with local tourism tax revenue and more than $7 million in state money. The agreement calls for the Orioles to pay all operating and maintenance costs at Ed Smith for the term of the lease.

The deal also includes:

• A proposed Orioles and Cal Ripken Baseball youth academy at Twin Lakes Park.
  
  
• And promotion of Sarasota County in the Baltimore Washington metro area.
  

I invite you to learn more about the many attractions of Sarasota and Bradenton Florida. Visit my Sarasota real estate website for more information on all the many advantages of living the Sunny Sarasota lifestyle. For more immediate service, call me directly on my cellphone at 941-228-2321.