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1.) What's new?

God continues to watch over us. Jeanie came with high winds Sunday morning and continue all day till around 7pm, after 7 the wind start to subside. Monday morning woke up to a sunny day light breeze. What a change from the days before. We have a little bit of cleaning up but less mess than Frances. All is well and we are open for business. Thank you for continue interest and prayers.

The Gerry's

Ivan / God Spare Us once again. We had some High water came close to building and a 10 mile an hour wind. we sustain no damage ,water has receded and beach is fine. 9/18/04 Tampa, St Pete ,Bradenton, Anna Maria Island , Longboat Key And Sarasota are all fine looks like nothing has happened. If you were diving into any of these town you would even no there had been a storm nearby.

Saturday 14 2004 -After Hurricane Charlie - We are open for business no damage . Phone are back in operation please call 941-778-2577 for reservation. Where are thanking god for being gentle to us. And send our pray to those less fortunate in Naples Arcadia & Sanibel.

Hurricane Charlie (FRIDAY13 2004)
Changes direction and spares Anna Maria Island form the brunt of the storm. Looks like we dodge a bullet a big bullet. unfortunately it was not so kind to Sanibel Island and Naples. We have had to evacuate the island and are not yet able to return. Looks like It will be Saturday afternoon before we survey the property for damage. People who have Reservation can call us on our cell phone on Saturday to see when the Island will open back up for tourist. You reach us at 518-4029 or 518-4044 for emergencies. You can also call the Holmes beach police department to find updates. Our main phone is not in-service do to the fact we had to turn the power of when we evacuated. Thank you for your prayer and support.

Updates:

The Waterfront restaurant had a fire and is closed for the next couple of months.

Island plantations resort is close they have demolished it and are in the process of building 11 luxury condos. also so part of the Econolodge is being turn into condos.

The FREE trolley service will begin a regular schedule starting March 23. Hours of operation: 6 AM to 10:30 PM, running every 20 minutes, 7 days a week on Anna Maria Island. The FREE trolley, with air conditioned area, as well as open-air seating, with wheel chair lifts and bike rack, will shuttle visitors and residents daily around the island, with connecting service to MCAT.

www.co.manatee.fl.us Click on Trolley

The beach restoration is now complete in other words( THAT MEANS WE ARE FINSHED)

from Harrington House to Sand Bar Restaurants . this section took a little under 2 week. The White Sands Beach resort and Annex location are both complete.

Anna Maria Island beach restoration has started If you never seen it done it is definitely a site to see they pump in the sand from a barge about two miles out and are able to do about a city block a week. The beach will go from its current 50 ft. width to about a hundred fifty feet wide. For the shell lovers this is a great time to fine sharks teeth and may be even some old relics like musket balls , you never know. Our beaches previously renourishment about 10 years ago . renourishment pictures on our Website. Stay tune

We have new sign,
Well we survive another tropical storm with 70mph winds Holmes Beach in most of Bradenton was out of power for three days. the island was mostly intact due to the fact that we're on the north side of the storm. With the exception of the Econ lodge losing the roof again. The Bradenton lost a lot of its old oak trees and quite a few signs. Anna Maria Island City both fishing piers were damaged but have been repaired since an our open for business.

The tragic events of Sept. 11 our hearts go out to the families of these tragic events. Remember you can help out by giving blood throughout the year in remembrance of the many injured and dead. Remember many will need reconstructive surgery and this will be an ongoing processes.

Peaches deli have been sold and are under new management. Expect different menus and prices.

ATO's has sold and is now The Waterfront restaurant it has good fishing chips. The specials Run from about 8.95 the normal prices a round 12 to 15 dollars

The rod and real fishing pier now has has taken over the Anna Maria Island historical oyster bar and pier restaurant on it and is supposed to have really great grouper according to some of our customers they will be reopening historical city pier. Anew little restaurant has open near the post office called hurricane hanks good lunches also has a bar.

Eckerd's drugstore moved in built a new place on the corner of manatee Avenue and East Bay Drive next to the Public's.

The property next-door to us sold for 2.5 million they are planning to build 11 luxury condos at about 900,000 apiece. Supposedly they've are a sold the first one for over a million

Turtle season start June 1st so please keep her lights off and do not disturb any nesting turtles on the beach at night. There'll season ends early October.

We have a new traffic light at the corner of Manatee Avenue and Gulf Drive this is that the manatee public beach.

White sands Has a new web site http://2fla.com/wsr/ it has some of the pictures with the new colors, also 2 web cams one poll cam & one beach camera. We update every day and some time when I am On line every minute but we are still working out the kinks AOL keeps signing us off.

If you'd like to be put on a waiting list for a particular room or a particular date please give us a call or email us.
4:)Cool gadget site x10.com with coupon from ken at white sands
Home automation & gadget site 15 dollar coupon http://www.x10.com/friend/forward.htm?wsresort@aol.com this is where we go to get our webcam and home automation now they give a coupon to new customers.