All sorts of things wash up on the beaches of St. Petersburg’s barrier islands, particularly in the wake of a storm, when the Gulf of Mexico is still churning and more inclined to give up its secrets.
Shell Key, a 195-acre island about 10 minutes - as the boat runs - south of Pass-a-Grille, is the largest parcel of land in the uninhabited, 1,800-acre Shell Key Preserve archipelago. Numerous small excursion boats ferry visitors to the area on a daily basis, island hopping in the sun and keeping an eye out for dolphins along the way, and anchoring for beachcombing and shallow-water, low tide snorkeling.
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