Tommy's on the Beach

It is hard to believe that we are already into June and my favorite time on our beach. We are enjoying the wonderful sunsets and warm Gulf water perfect for swimming. Our Night Blooming Cereus are putting on their amazing display so I know summer is here. I love our Tropical nights! We still have openings in August and of course, fall which is my other favorite season on the beach. Here’s to a wonderful summer!

I had a wonderful day today with a conservation group that I belong to. We joined Tampa Bay Watch to help them build oyster beds in our local waters. Crabby Bill’s restaurants donated the oyster shells and we shoveled them into net bags. We then loaded them onto boats to be taken and placed on the shores of small islands that dot our waters. This will encourage natural beds to form. The live oysters filter the surrounding waters. While we were loading the boats, a family of dolphins was feeding and playing just off of the dock. They leapt out of the water just like they do in the Sea World Shows. Amazing!

It’s no secret here at Tommy’s that the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area is a vibrant, culturally-rich destination. Now it appears that New York Magazine has discovered us!

Their recent article, which concentrates mainly on downtown St Petersburg, states that “gleaming new art museums, and a resurgence of music have given this formerly senior-dominated Florida destination an increasingly youthful edge.”

Among the attractions touted by the article is the Dali Museum where you can
peruse the world’s most comprehensive collection of Salvador Dalí’s works. Also cited were the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and the thriving music scene at Jannus Live, taking place in a newly renovated space in downtown St. Pete.

All these attractions are easily accessible from Tommy’s, but when you’ve had enough, the quiet and solitude of the beach is waiting for you. And every night, the western sky is painted  anew in striking colors:

After being open  for 7 years we are proud to Christen our Tommy’s on the Beach with a new identity sign and logo.

Now when you arrive you won’t have to guess which place is ours.

Thanks to all of our past guests who have made it possible for us to remain in business for this long and hopefully as long to come.

To our guests, new and old, we look forward to seeing you again at Tommy’s. Just look for the sign!

We are thinking of all our Tommy’s on the Beach friends in the rest of the country enduring yet another serious winter storm.  We hope they all are comfortable and safe.  We are glad that some of our favorite “snow bird” guests are here with us now.  They are, too.  Our weather is wonderful- up to about 74 today and mostly sunny.  We will get some of the front that that rest of the country is getting around Thursday.  I won’t be participating in my Windlasses’ sailing club because the temperture will probably be around 60 degrees at our start time.  Too cold for us whimpy Floridians.  We are looking forward to the front moving through so we can get back to our 70 degree afternoons.