About 25 miles north of Siesta Key – around an hour's drive – is Anna Maria Island, a barrier island off the coast of Bradenton overlooking Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Long a favorite ...

Plan a trip to Anna Maria Island and experience ... This well-maintained museum, located in downtown Bradenton, features two floors of exhibits dipping into South Florida's past, plus an ...

Although sea turtle nesting season officially starts on May 1, volunteers started patrolling the island beaches in mid-April ...

If they choose to rest in this location, it would mark the first time since 2017 that Anna Maria Island has hosted a ... distance of at least 300 feet. In Florida, Black Skimmers are a designated ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. (WFLA) — The sea turtle patrols began along Anna Maria Island on Tuesday morning. Researchers said we could already start seeing turtle nests out on beaches. Officials ...

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring announced April 28 that it cordoned off an area in Bradenton Beach ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — Six months ago ... it is finding new ways to open its doors in a different location. Rod and Reel is temporarily open on East Bay Drive, a move Lemke told us has ...

As our plane lifts off from Florida, I glance out the window for a final look at Anna Maria Island. From above, it strikes me as oddly familiar – not from a map, but from an Instagram reel my ...