St Augustine beach FL (Florida) lies in the beautiful Anastasia Island towards the east of the city of St Augustine . It is surrounded by by the Inter coastal waterway on the west and the Atlantic ocean on the east. A highway called the A1A highway stretches along the whole length of the St Augustine beach . Every year 5 million people pay a visit to this beach. The beach is a summer retreat for specially the people of Florida .
St Augustine Beach is an outstanding tourist destination. The beach is fringed with palm trees, hotels and restaurants and myriad shops selling eclectic mixture of things. Tourists can look forward to strolling on the sandy beach and appreciating the stunning beauty of the ocean, silent and boisterous, enjoy a shrimp or other delicacies in a ocean front hotel or just riding with the waves. The beach is dotted with many spectacular parks, golf courses, tennis courts, zoos and a lighthouse. St Augustine beach means unlimited fun and frolic in the form of swimming, surfing, kayaking, boating, fishing, golfing, playing tennis, picnicking, taking a ride along the highway in a car or biking. Some of the destinations for sightseeing in St Augustine are given below.
The Anastasia State Park Recreation Area : It is a bird sanctuary covering 1,700 acres.
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The park encompasses 5 miles of the beach swept by sand dunes and marshy lands washed by the tides. It contains oak trees. Visitors can look forward to swimming, picnicking, fishing, wind surfing and camping.
Fort Matanzas : It houses the Fort Matanzas National Monument. It also provides a home to many endangered animals and birds. A visitor can enjoy the beauty of the place in the shade of the Palmetto, magnolia and oak trees. It is an ideal picnic spot.
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum : This place comprises a museum, the remarkable St Augustine Light, the house of the Lighthouse Keepers. A visitor there can take a adventurous climb up the meandering staircase of the Lighthouse. The house of the Light House keepers sheds information to a curious visitor about the history of the place and the Light and also about how the Lighthouse Keepers spend their lives up there.
Washington Oaks State Gardens : It is situated towards the south of Crescent Beach lying on the A1A highway. This place greets visitors with beautiful gardens of roses and fluttering butterflies and stretches of walkways along the beach.
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