Have anybody notice that Google maps has streetview for beaches

[Coconutman]

From B.I.O.T to Naples FL

[_Keith]

Now that is just too cool.

[Xerarch]

That's awesome!

[rick]

Go on a vacation without leaving your living room

www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/

[Coconutman]

Sometimes I just go to random places to see what kind of vegetation/climate those places have!Kind of cool to see limits of certain tropical plants.

[tjwalters]

And the Everglades!

[WestCoastGal]

Or perhaps you prefer the dry sandy desert to view palms while taking footage via camel back...

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2014/10/roam-arabian-desert-with-street-view.html

Heard about this "street view" on local TV within just the last few weeks. Here's directions: Right turn at first dune, travel 5600 camel steps to lone palm tree, make a left at the mirage and continue to the sea or until you die of thirst, which ever comes first...at which time you will have arrived at your final destination.

[Dave-Vero]

The Florida beach "street view" project got some support from the state. Locally, at our own little South Beach, the project managed to catch a surfer and the coconut that grew from a nut that someone seems to have plopped off to the side of a boardwalk.

[Coconutman]

Pretty cool Dave.Interesting finds on streetview. Now only can they do Bermuda!?

[Zeeth]

The Florida beach "street view" project got some support from the state. Locally, at our own little South Beach, the project managed to catch a surfer and the coconut that grew from a nut that someone seems to have plopped off to the side of a boardwalk.

South Beach street view surfer copy.jpg

South beach street view coconut copy.jpg

That must be a pretty common thing for people to do with sprouted coconuts that they find! There's one just like that on Lido Key in Sarasota.

[Coconutman]

A ideal location for a cocos creates a nice silhouette against the setting sun for the tourist.I won't be surprised if those sea grape bushes are hiding some cocos seedlings!

[Dave-Vero]

The thicket at our South Beach could really use a visit from a Florida Park Service fire crew. They're really good at setting fires around buildings and boardwalks without causing damage or even flustering beachgoers (I have some photos of such a fire at Sebastian Inlet). Right now, the area is so dense, I doubt there's any more coconuts coming up. Plenty of beach naupaka, Scaevola taccada, a common shrub from Hawaii to east Africa but a pest in the Caribbean. Also lots of gray nickerbean, botanical barbed wire.

Today, the beach had some semi-messy 3' surf and a few surfers.

[Coconutman]

With fire comes life...nutrients from the ashes and abundant sunlight to help young plants grow again.