Escape to Venice Beach Florida, The Shark's Tooth Capitol of the World!

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Venice Beach Florida - The Shark's Tooth Capitol of the World!

Venice Beach Florida is one of a span of 14 miles of Venice Beaches along the shore and is the furthest north, at the far north end of Venice Island, just south of the Venice Jetty.

Looking across the dunes at Venice Beach Florida

Another “Blue Wave Certification” beach, Venice Beach Florida, with its clean sand and sparkling clean water, is another one of our gorgeous Gulf of Mexico Beaches just waiting to be discovered by you.

In fact, in 2008 Venice Beach was named one of the five best renourished beaches by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association.

Finished in 2008, the Venice Beach renourishment was completed at a cost of $16 million over three years. The project extended Venice Beach about 130 feet along more than 3 miles of gulf coast shoreline.

Also, five new artificial limestone reefs were created about 500 yards offshore and should provide about seven acres of habitat for sea life.

Venice Beach Florida Condo View

With a backdrop of Condos rising over the beach, there's lots of room for you to relax and wriggle your toes in its sand. The size of the crowds vary on this beach depending on whether or not it’s high season or low season, but it’s usually less crowded than Siesta Beach any time of year. Don't worry, there’s plenty of room for you to stake out your own piece of the sand!

Venice Beach Florida

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This is a great beach on which to find sharks teeth, as Venice, Florida is the Shark Tooth Capital of the World.

There are two ways to hunt for shark’s teeth at Venice Beach; “Free Hand” or with a “Shark’s Tooth Basket” that you use to scoop up and sift sand, leaving the sharks teeth in the basket. I’ve seen both ways work fine for shark tooth hunters, it just depends on your style and agility, I guess.

Shark tooth baskets are available at most any shop in Downtown Venice and even at Wal-Mart!

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Park Bench at Venice Beach Florida

Venice Beach is also a good beach to watch for bottle nosed dolphins offshore. And, for divers there’s a coral reef dive site located about a quarter mile offshore.

Looking North at Venice Beach Florida

Tip: The Florida sun can be really bright on Venice Beach as the rays glare off the water and sand. Protect your eyes with quality sunglasses. Here's my favorite place to find both protective and really cool sunglasses.

Close to Venice Florida hotels, with unobstructed and awe inspiring views of the Gulf of Mexico together with good amenities including concessions, a pavilion shelter, park benches, picnic tables, restrooms, a volleyball area, life guard stations, free parking...

Relaxing on Venice Beach Flordia

...and lots of room to spread out and relax, Venice Beach Florida makes for a relaxing day at the beach, close to in-town conveniences. It’s so peaceful you’ll have a difficult time pulling yourself away.

Tip: For your Venice Beach fun, bring your cooler and umbrella, flip flops, swimsuit, light weight beachwear, suntan lotion and beach towel. Make sure you plan early for your trip and get your swimsuit and all your beach stuff here.

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Directions: To find Venice Beach from Sarasota, follow Rt. 41 south into Downtown Historic Venice. Turn right on to Venice Avenue and follow it west and you’ll run right in to Venice Beach’s parking area.

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