Longboat Key Activities
Bob Parrish CPA, P.C. Send email to pro1040@comcast.net
Below is an aerial photograph of the island. Longboat Key is a city of
about 8,000 full-time residents. During the winter months the tourists
will make the island fairly full with about 22,000 on the island during the peak
months. The land area is between four and five square miles. The
location of our stay is at the top of the photo. which is approximately north.
At the top of the picture is a bridge to another island - Anna Maria Island.
At the bottom of the photograph is City Island and Lido Key. This area is
just off the coast of Sarasota. South of Tampa, North of Ft Myers.
Longboat has a few activities during the year, however most of the activities
are in Sarasota. Sarasota has some attractions that might interest you.
If you can find the time and make the trip - it will be a long one, you are
certainly invited. We would love to show you the attractions. Some
of the attractions will change depending upon the season. Sarasota
(population) is
about the size of Lubbock Texas or Springfield Illinois.
Locally there will be:
Educational Lectures and Seminars
| Average Temperature: | 73 F |
| Average Gulf Temp: | 75 F |
| Average Rainfall: | 53.09 inches |
| Daily High Temp. | Gulf Water Temp. | |
| January | 72 | 60 |
| February | 74 | 65 |
| March | 77 | 67 |
| April | 81 | 72 |
| May | 87 | 80 |
| June | 89 | 83 |
| July | 90 | 86 |
| August | 91 | 86 |
| September | 89 | 85 |
| October | 85 | 78 |
| November | 80 | 73 |
| December | 73 | 66 |
| Land Area: | 4.26 square miles |
| Length: | 10.8 miles |
| Width: | ..05 to 1 mile |
| Elevation: | 3 to 18 feet |
| Water area: | 11.74 square miles |
| Full-time Residents | 6,700 |
| Seasonal Residents | 12,000 |
| Peak Season | 22,000 |
| Average Age | 66 |
| Male | 46.1% |
| Female |
Arts Council Search Page (Search by date for all listed performances)
Longboat Key Art Center (a very small, local type atmosphere)
Golf - Longboat; Sarasota Golf Courses
Cincinnati Reds Spring Training and Sarasota Red Sox
Spindrift @ the Dry Dock (Sail, Power and Dinner Boats)
SIESTA
PARASAIL
THE ENTERPRISE
MAHINA LA
SAILING
Daytona International Speedway
The Circus Museum; Circus Museum Site
Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning
Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge
Jungle Gardens; Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Caribbean Gardens the Zoo in Naples Florida
Many of the Marinas have restaurants and offer a non-guided sight-seeing walk
The Florida Aquarium; Florida Aquarium
GULFCOAST WONDER & IMAGINATION ZONE
Air Force Space and Missile Museum
Art Museum John and Mable Ringling Art Museum
Salvador
Dali Museum;
Dali Museum
Sarasota Museum of Cars & Music
Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge
Edison - Ford Winter
Estates in Fort Myers, Florida; Edison Museum
Historic
Spanish Point
Fort De Soto
Fort Jefferson
Hemingway
festival
Holocaust Memorial
Florida
Gulf Coast Rail Road Museum; FLORIDA
GULF COAST RAILROAD MUSEUM
Villa Cá d' Zan; Ca d' Zan Website
Jazz club; Jazz Club of Sarasota
Opera; Sarasota Opera; Sarasota Opera
Symphony; Sarasota West Coast Symphony
Pelican Man Bird Sanctuary; Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary
Quick Point Nature Preserve
Myakka State Park or Myakka link 2; Myakka River; Myakka River State Park
Adventure
Island; Adventure
Island
Amazing Exotics
Busch Gardens;Busch
Gardens
Caribbean
Gardens
Cypress Gardens; Cypress
Gardens
Disney
World
Gatorland
Jungle Adventures
Key West Aquarium
Florida's Gulfarium
Kennedy Space Center; Kennedy
Space Center
Lion Country Safari
Museum of Science and Industry
Old
Town
Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum
Sea World Sea
World
Sesame Place
Silver
Springs
Splendid
China
Sunken Gardens
Universal Studios; Universal
Studios
Water
County
Weeki Wachee
Universal
Studios
Walt Disney
World Theme Parks; Walt
Disney World
Bishop Planetarium - SOUTH FLORIDA MUSEUM
Marina Jack Restaurant
Kennedy Space Center Fast Facts
Kennedy Space Center - Launches
G-WIZ - www.gwiz.org; Gulf Coast Wonder & Imagination Zone
Asolo Theatre Festival; Asolo Theater Festival
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Dinner Train Theatre (Mystery) & (A Second Link for the train)
Golden Apple; Golden Apple Dinner Theatre
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
GO TO FLORIDA and visit the Beautiful Island of SIESTA KEY
Biscayne Bay
Cape Canaveral
Daytona Beach
Disney World
Florida State University
Miami
Purple Porpoise
St. Petersburg
Sloppy Joe's
South Beach
Tampa, downtown
Tampa, Kennedy Blvd.
University of Florida