• Beach Site Catalogue  We looked for the must useful sites for the beach web surfer.
• Islands without bridges.
• Fishing Piers 
• We've Been There  We've been to a lot of beaches.
• Lighthouses, Islands and Inlets 
• Bridges
• Boats Ports Planes
• Beaches In Atlanta

• Hall of Fame  Our list of superlatives.  You can find the sites we love and things we hate about the beach.
• Beach forums on the web Some are about the south some not.
• Beach Books  Our favorite beach books.
• Beach Media  Radio, newspapers, and magazines about the beach.  You can find the Charleston News and Courier, and the  Apalachicola Times and every news paper in between.
• Links  If we can't classify a beach site, we put it here.  You can find some nature sites, fish, and lighthouse information here.  Lots of odd sites such as the Virtual Sand Collection.
• Log  We keep a complete log of changes we make to the site.

Sandbur, Sandspur Sand bur, Sand spur (whatever you call them): scientific name: [Cenchrus echinatus L.  Southern sandbur (sandspur)] Of course these are tops in our Hall of Fame for things we hate at the beach.

Here is some more information about them:

• Southeast Coastal Gardening Forum about management
• US Department of Agriculture
• University of South Florida
• University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service
• California Department of Food and Agriculture
• Utah State University
• Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States has a scary picture of the business end of a sandbur:

© Paul Rebmann from www.2bnthewild.com

We're just getting this stuff together

• Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding Trail by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources

• Globally Important Bird Areas of the United States by the American Bird Conservancy

• Turtle Tracking

• NOAA's Mapping Sea Nettles in Chesapeake Bay

• Dock Watch a jellyfish reporting system by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab

• Sea Grant Georgia "critter page"

• Gofish.com's Fish Handbook is a nice guide to identification, habitat, cooking and eating safely.

• Sea Lice? yuk

• Glossary of Crustacean Terms  Learn about crustacean terms from abdomen to zoea. From the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

• Coastal Kayak Fishing, Inc. in California.  We didn't know folkd did that.
• Florida Sportsman Online
• Dauphin Island Sealab "Dockwatch" Jellyfish Identification Page for Gulf species
• SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SHELLFISH GROUNDS 2001 - 2002 RECREATIONAL HARVESTING

• Fish that Bite Back from Inshore.com

• Big Bend Florida Fishing http://www.bigbendfishing.net/index.htm

• Field and Stream Fishing Page has an excellent fish finder with more than 95 species.

• Fishbase is a breathtaking fish data base.

• Online Mariner "The commercial marine professional's choice for daily news and resources."  They are right.

• National Fisherman (Industry Magazine)

• Audubon Guide to Seafood may not be what you expect.

• HotSpots Sea Surface Temperature Charts (way cool, see the Georgia buoy map)

• Commercial fishing stats

• Florida Sportsman

• South Carolina fishing forum

• South Carolina DNR fishing page

• South Carolina saltwater marinas

• Bunch of Florida marinas  and a marina map

• Pensacola Bay Fishing Bridge forum

• Pensacola SpooledAgain forum

• Florida Basic Recreational Saltwater Fishing Regulations (size and catch limits) a fairly fast pdf file.

• American Fisheries Society  We found the most information on the links page.

• Georgia Fishing Regulations

Archaeological and geological studies of sea level fluctuation along the South Carolina Coast suggest that over the past 20,000 years sea level may have risen as much as 330 ft (100 meters). At 10,000 ybp the coast may have been as much as 50 miles to the east. Within the past 2,000 years, sea level has fluctuated within a range of less than 12 ft.  See the cool but giant diagram ( 586 kb).

This is a good if big page about Florida geology.  It has good diagrams.

• Fall Line - is a wave-cut scarp about 100 million years old, marking a high stand of mid-Cretaceous seas

• Wicomico Terrace

• Penholoway Terrace

• Talbot Terrace, 25-42 ft, 7.6-12.8 m, above present sea level)

• Pamlico Terrace 15-25 ft, 4.6-7.6 m, above present sea level)

• Princess Ann Terrace (8-15 ft, 2.4-4.6 m, above present sea level)

• Silver Bluff (formation, which lies between present sea level and the Princess Anne Terrace)

• Holocene

• Pleistocene

• Prehistoric Georgia

• The Applied Coastal Research Laboratory
  of Georgia Southern University

• The Natural History of Georgia's Barrier Islands 

• Jacksonville Shell Club

• Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories in Panacea some nice articles about the coast and the area.

• Atlantic Coast Watch and big links page  very good news nugget page

• Surfrider State of the Beach  Charleston's Surfrider Chapter, New Smyrna Beach's Surfrider Chapter

• Southern Environmental Law Center

• Center for a Sustainable Coast

• Gulf Coast Environmental Defense

• South Carolina Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management

• The Office of Beaches and Coastal Systems (OBCS), under the Florida Department of Environmental Protection

• Army Corps of Engineers:  Charleston District  Savannah District; Jacksonville District; Mobile District

• USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program A lot of good work goes into their Sound Waves Magazine

• The Georgia Conservancy Coastal Georgia Pages

• Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center

• The Nature Conservancy Florida Chapter and map of  Key Conservation Areas

• Ogeechee River Valley Association (ORVA)

• The Nature Conservancy South Carolina Chapter

• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League

• Florida Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Inc.

• 1000 Friends of Florida

• Pensacola Gulf Coast Keepers

• Audubon Guide to Seafood may not be what you expect.

• Map of NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserves (NEER)

• The Coastal Environmental Organization of Georgia

• Environmental News Network

• Sea Grant Georgia "creature page"

• EPA Beach Watch  Florida survey  Georgia survey  South Carolina Survey

• EPA Wetlands

• Atlantic Coast Watch and big links page  very good news nugget page

• Clean Beaches Council  Map of Blue Wave Beaches and nice links page

• National Resource Defense Council and their maps of beach monitoring.

• Florida Marine Research Institute has current content

• Daniels Island (near Charleston SC)

• PETA's nofishing.net site.  You can imagine.

• The Maine Coast by Diamond Pass Publishing is, I think, going to be an online version of a published books about cruising the Maine Coast.  It's not yet complete but it's beautiful with nice maps and more.

• http://sunsetsurf.com/map.asp Wonderful and straightforward site about Sunset Beach, California.

• www.nycrossroad.com is from a major bridge lover.

• Block Island Rhode Island and its panoramic picture.

• Sunspot.net Bay and Beach (Maryland)

• Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce "The Area" page.  Cedar Key is a small and relatively remote place.  The aerial photo on this page captures it well.

This is our record of site changes.

What's New:
7-29-02 Yesterday Gannett published a big article on beach erosion and a website about it.

7-25-02 We've got to look this site over. Cruising Guides by Claiborne S. Young.  It has some good marina links.

7-24-02 Here is a great site from The Atlanta Boardsailing Club that we've put on our Beaches in Atlanta page.

7-18-02  I wish they did this down south - Jellyfish forecast for Chesapeake bay.  Oops,  'gators on the outer banks.  We've added a new page: Beach forums on the web; we've got some work to do on it.

7-12-02 Finally starting "Driving the beach" or "Getting there" (just starting though).

7-9-02 Added Charleston Illustrated to the Hall of Fame.  Wow.

6-24-02 I like this surfer site about the Texas Coast

6-21-02 What is this site all about?  The New Orleans Beachguide.

6-18-02 Added the The Island Mullet Wrapper newspaper from Dauphin Island to the Beach Media Page

6-15-02 Last week the Destin Ft Walton Log changed their site to show images of the actual paper.  It seems like a good idea but made it slow and all but unreadable in the process.

6-8-02 Added GraytonBeach.com to the Hall of Fame it's like being there.

6-5-02 I've added my vacation rental pages to this site.

5-27-02 See the Palm Valley Bridge website.

5-19-02  We really like this Cedar Key site. The rest of what's new is down here. (NTM Check out Rose Bay Bridges.)

5-4-02  We're starting to list every saltwater fishing pier we can find on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Maine to Texas and we're starting to make that page a little prettier, little being the key word.

4-1-02  April Fools Day.  What a day to redesign a site but there you are.  We've just changed the home page.  The rest will come in their own good time.  I hope we all like it.

3-7-02
See the website for the new Hathaway Bridge

3-6-02  Added Coast News from Darien, Ga to Beach Media page.  Check out the Dog Island web site too.  It's on the Site Catalogue page

3-5-02  Check our the aerial photo of Tybee Island, Georgia.

2-19-02  Added "Kate's Dream" to the Hall of Fame.  It's a beach house rental with a wonderful and personal guide to Alligator Point.

2-17-02  Added The Alligator Point Diaries to the Hall of Fame, Site catalogue and Beach Media Pages.  This are nice.

New bridge pictures from Hilton Head and Apalachicola.

2-3-02  Remind me to check Buckman Bridge or the Fuller Warren Bridge in Jacksonville.

To Log archive - all the way back to August, 2000