Welcome to the Suncoast
A portion of southwest Florida from Tampa Bay to Charlotte Harbor, the
Suncoast consists of Sarasota County, Manatee County, and parts of
Charlotte County and Lee County.
What's New
School has started and with construction underway on the new Venice High School, school hour
traffic is thick morning and afternoon.
The new high school is being constructed on the site of the current high school and is expected to
be completed by the beginning of school next year.
Area Insight
The entire Suncoast is a water wonderland. We have the Gulf of Mexico, various bays, sounds, estuaries,
rivers, creeks, lakes, and ponds. These waters teem with fish, birds, and other aquatic wildlife. Daily sightings
include dolphins, manatees, brown pelicans, white pelicans, wood storks, bald eagles, ospreys, red shouldered
hawks, white ibis, glossy ibis, great blue herons, green herons, yellow crowned night herons, black crowned
night herons, great egret, snowy egret, cattle egret, sandhill cranes, stilts, oystercatchers, killdeer,
sandpipers, various woodpeckers, plovers, gallinules, moorhens, limpkins,(see photo below)quail,
wild turkey, kites, kestrels, bitterns, ducks, anhinga, cormorants, terns, owls, raccoons, opossums, armidillo,
red fox, lynx, cougar, feral pigs, whitetail deer, and many others.