Venice Beach Bash 2010 June 12

[CMOST]

Sounds great! If there is room put me on the 10:30 boat. If no room is left on that one I'll jump on the 9:00 boat. From there put me on a boat that has room!!!

 

[Reef_Haven]

Please put me and my son down for any available time.
Thanks Jamie.

 

[KBeck]

Thanks Jenny for getting us kicked off!!!
Are we still going to Alhambra, per usual? I like that site!

I'm sure Jim and I will be there, with tent and probably several "tables"; but I'll let him vouch for that.

Last year the sandwich rings worked pretty well. I'm happy to do the same again, and just throw out a collection bucket for people to put a couple bucks in.....it worked just fine last year; I was trying to give people money back, actually!

I'm ready to head back to Venice....it was one looooong winter!

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Yep, KBeck and I are in.

I've got the 24' x 2' tables to bring along. That's 48 sqft. of tables. Last year we were fine with 36 sqft. of table and nothing was overloaded on tables.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

First post updated.
Krista, great idea again on the sandwich rings. I agree, they worked fine.


Whoo hooo!!! I see a party in the making!!!!

 

[MontanaFL]

I see everyone mention Alhambra but not sure exactly what they are referring to. There is an Alhambra Road that dead ends on the beach with a multistory building located there. Is that the spot? I know we are a few months away but like to be sure now than wait until the day before. Thanks

 

[joystershell]

I see everyone mention Alhambra but not sure exactly what they are referring to. There is an Alhambra Road that dead ends on the beach with a multistory building located there. Is that the spot? I know we are a few months away but like to be sure now than wait until the day before. Thanks

Yup, that's the place!

 

[joystershell]

Yup, that's the place!

And, I have attached a couple of older posts here, that may give you more useful information.

Alhambra Beach
Venice, FL

Type of diving Shark tooth and fossil hunting in the Gulf of Mexico. This area is a prehistoric river bed and does yield more fossils than the sharks teeth.

Type of diving: Shore dive

Directions: Google Maps
I-75 exit 200 to Osprey.
Continue Southeast on TAMIAMI TRL N/FL-45 S/US-41 S toward BAYVIEW DR. Continue to follow TAMIAMI TRL N/FL-45 S. 7.4 miles Map
Turn RIGHT onto MIAMI AVE W. <0.1 miles
Turn LEFT onto NOKOMIS AVE S. <0.1 miles
Turn RIGHT onto PONCE DE LEON AVE. 0.3 miles
Turn LEFT onto HARBOR DR S. 0.1 miles
Turn RIGHT onto ALHAMBRA RD. 0.4 miles
Follow ALHAMBRA RD to the end

What to expect at the dive site: Typical sharks teeth found are from the folloing: Dusky and Blacktip family, Sand Shark (current and prehistoric), Bull Shark, and Lemon Shark. More rare but also found are Maco, Great White, Snaggle Tooth and Megalodon. Other fossils that can be found include dolphin, manatee, and whale bones, stingray stingers and crusher platelettes and tail vertebrae, porupine fish platelettes, mammoth and mastodon teeth/tusk/vertebrae, sloth claws, alligator scales, and sabertooth teeth. Best times for hunting are a few days after a storm when the water has settled down. Depths are 16-18 feet, unless you swim a long way out then you may hit 20.

Where to park: parking is on the street: do not park blocking driveways and park the same direction and trafic flow. Many parking tickets have been issued here to non-believers .

Amenities: Florida West dive shop is about 1 mile north of the site on 41 literally just over the bridge back onto the main land. Sharkey's resturant is at the base of the pier. Venice Beach's downtown district is 1/2 mile off with food and shops as well.

Pros and Cons: When the water is clear lots of teeth can be found. When the water is a milky emerald green, there will be no visibility on the bottom and toothing is useless.

Alternate directions to Alhambra:

From the south:

Head to Venice on I 75. Take exit 193 and head SW (coming from the south that's a left turn) on Jacaranda. Turn right on Venice Ave. Stay on Venice Ave until after you've crossed the bridge to the downtown area. Turn left at the second light after the bridge (Harbor - name not well marked). Turn right at the 5th street (Alhambra).

From the north:

Head to Venice on I 75. Take exit 200 (SR681) and follow it to US 41 where you'll turn left (south). Take US 41 to Business US 41 (Tamiami Trail) where you turn right. After you cross the bridge, you'll turn right on Venice Ave. Turn left at the first light (Harbor - name not marked). Turn right at the 5th street (Alhambra).

Park on the street as close to the dead end as possible. Be careful not to block the driveway to the condo. Keep your dive between the culverts to the south and the three pine trees to the north.

 

[KBeck]

Great link, Joyce! MontanaFL, yes, she's precisely right; it's not a "park" with walkways and benches, etc., but it's a really good area with less other beach-goers, so we're able to set up lots of tents and chairs without aggravating them. As long as we take care to clean up well after ourselves, no-one really bothers us.

Now, since Jenny started us off so well, I'll try to assist with the "list o' supplies as we go:

Krista/Jim--tables; tent, sandwich rings
Jenny (&HermitCrab?):
MontanaFL & Scorpion2012: Mur (just ask ) and juice; cabana, chairs
reef Haven+1
mselaneous, NetDoc, rgiles:
cardzard & roxanne
Brewone0to+1:
ScubaBill1955 + 1:
CMOST:

Tentative:
Joystershell & megamikey


Things always needed: ice, coolers, drinks, napkins, plates, trashbags. Munchies---chips, dips, desserts.

 

[joystershell]

Aw shucks Krista! :blinking: Yes, we always seem to need more trash bags than we have. Yes, there is one trash container at the end of this road, but it is by no means adequate for our needs. And we have always tried to do the right thing by removing all of our trash, so as not to wear out our welcome. Just a recollection from last year; we had no plates, cups, napkins or plasticware. We managed, but it was kinda messy. The kids had the right idea though, just stuffed their entire piece of cake into their mouths, who needs to bother with plates and forks?

And as soon as I know if we will be able to attend, I will see what everybody else is bringing for food to share, then post what we will add to compliment the mix.