St. Petersburg, Florida, vacation

St. Petersburg, Florida, or as the local residents fondly refer to this fabulous city as St. Pete; hosts many cultural attractions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, a Holocaust Museum, and the Salvador Dali Museum, home to the largest collection of Dali’s in the world, including number of famous and large scale paintings as The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

There are many other art galleries and entertainment venues for the aesthetic individual. Howsoever, the most popular St. Pete attraction is the St. Petersburg Pier, where the activities include fishing, boating, festivals, shopping, dining, a spectacular nightlife, and of course, the pier aquarium.

In the center of St. Petersburg, Florida is The Sunken Gardens…4-acres of awesome botanical gardens. And, for the true nature lover, is Boyd Hill Nature Park on Lake Maggiore…245 acre preserve of endangered plants and rare wildlife of Tampa Bay.

St. Pete is famously known for its number one beaches at Fort De Soto Park at the far southern tip of the city. Sunset at North Beach in Fort De Soto Park is awesome…magical. As you stand there you can feel the exalted power of the Ocean and marvel at the rays of sunlight as they touch the undulations of the water’s surface.

The panache of St. Petersburg, Florida activities is a delightful combination of cruise and music, when you cruise the Bay waters on a vintage paddleboat to the bodacious southern rhythms of Dixieland Jazz.

There is a plethora of tours to the seas of crystalline waters complete with playful dolphins. For your ultimate Florida vacation, take a cruise…take all of them, you will not be disappointed.

The Florida Aquarium is an aquatic experience with thousands of aquatic animals and plants, including live sharks and rays in a touch pool.

The days alone do not solely belong to St. Petersburg, for the nightlife is incorrigibly romantic and alive with the wondrous sounds of people enjoying the night and the music and the dance to the warm, subtropical breeze of the sweeping coastline.

As restuarants go, some of them can become a very popular attraction. For when you are hungry, Colombia Restaurant on the Pier, boasts Spanish and Cuban influenced seafood dishes with the aqua blue beauty of St. Petersburg’s Tampa Bay.

For when you are tired, there are those wonderful resort hotels with balconies and Ocean views.

St. Petersburg, Florida is not merely a place for a vacation…it is a place where one becomes alive again.