South Venice

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 ended for the summer but construction continues on the new Venice High School.

The new high school is being constructed on the site of the current high school and is expected to be completed by 2013.


If you would like to comment on the site or have questions,
email me
please.

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.

Copyright ©
BigJohn Design
http://www.bigjohndesign.com/