Florida Tour 10 | ||
Clearwater | ||
Interstate 275 - Sunshine Skyway Bridge which is 5.5 miles long and crosses Tampa Bay. It was opened in 1987 replacing the previous bridge built in 1954 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
The previous bridge was struck by a freighter - the SUMMIT VENTURER - and ten cars and a Greyhound coach plummeted into the water. Thirty five people lost their lives - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport and USCG C130 Hercules (left). Clearwater Memorial Causeway (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Dolphin cruises are available - but you have to be lucky to get decent photographs! PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Hardly spectacular! PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
"Pirate ship" on dolphin cruise outward bound (left) and returning under the Clearwater Memorial Causeway (right) and - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Some operators take passengers to an island in the Bay . . . | ||
. . . returning at sunset to Clearwater - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Clearwater Beaches and hotels viewed from the Pier - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Sun tents and palms - Clearwater Beach - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Clearwater Pier (above) and Lifeguard station (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Lengthening shadows at the end of the day as a pleasure craft prepares to come alongside - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
Sunrise . . . Sunset - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
End of the day at Clearwater Beach - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | ||
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Party time on the Bay as a leisure craft
gets under way - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
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St Petersburg and Tampa |