Florida No Oil On Our Beach 813-949-0010.
Robert Gladden e-mail Robert@RobertGladden.com
www.RobertGladden.com www.JohnsPassVillage.com
Welcome to "Florida No Oil On Our Beach ". This website is dedicated to show people all over the world who love to visit Florida that there is no oil on our beach after the BP oil spill. Florida's tourist begain to think Florida's beaches are covered in oil. I have not seen any oil on our beaches and I do not expect any. While many people are crying " The Sky is Falling " or spending their time blaming somebody, I am doing something positive about it by building this website to show how beautiful our Florida Gulf Beaches and to show there is No Oil On Our Beaches.
If you have been too school your probable have already seen my photographs. My name is Robert Gladden and I am a former underwater photographer for Jacques Cousteau. I have traveled across sometimes 30 foot seas to little know islands to dive on underwater cliffs that drops off thousands of feet into the Gulf Stream. I do this because I love too and I want you to see how beautiful it all is too. I know these waters and beaches around Florida very well. I know from experience what I am taking about.
The facts is only the very tip of the panhandle of Florida had some oil wash up on the beach. The oil well blowout is about half way across the Gulf of Mexico. The panhandle of Florida spans across Georgia, Alabama and almost to New Orleans. This is a very long way from Florida's central gulf coast beaches. There is No Oil on Our Beaches. I don’t believe any oil will get this far East to our beaches and this is why.
Ft. DeSoto Park, Florida.
Off our Florida coast beaches we have a continental shelf that extends west for about 150 miles before it drops off into the deep water canyon that is about a mile deep. The BP Gulf Oil spill happen in this canyon. The floating oil will dissipate in a few months and what is left will form denser tar balls that will sink to the bottom in the deep underwater canyon. In time the tar balls will slowly become part of the sand and rocks on the bottom of the canyon.
Macro view of the beach sand and shells. Super close up view is about a half of a little finger nial.
We do not know how much oil is down there and thus the question is still how will it affect the deep water life. We all hope it will not break the ecological life system. Only time will tell us about this. Off our coast there is a strong South current that flows down to the Florida Keys and joins the Gulf Stream. Thus what little oil the wind blows East will be pulled South by this current. It is like a big wall of water that protects us. This time of the year the weather pattern for Florida are the trade winds that blow out of the South East towards New Orleans and Texas. In time the Gulf Stream will little by little pull off what suspended oil is left around the oil well site when they used the dispersants.
We do not know what kind of dispersants they used or how much they used so there are still a lot of question about what is going on in the canyon. We are concered about the Tuna and the sailfish because they spawn in the waters where the oil spill happen and is where there eggs normally hatch. The fishermen are reporting that the Whale sharks and the giant Squid are coming up onto the continental shelf in high numbers too. The new born babies Porpoise are dying and many are washing up on the beaches over by New Orleans and Louisiana. This spring will tell us more about what is going on out there. We hope the Gulf survives this tearable disaster. So,remember the very fact that the oil spill is almost half way across the Gulf of Mexico makes it very hard for any oil to get this Far East to our coast.
If this oil spill happen closer to Florida Gulf Coast and up on top of the continental shelf our beaches would be covered with oil for years to come and that would be the end of our tourist coming to Florida. The Florida Key's coral reefs would be no more and there would be little fish and sea life left off our coast. What fish that did survive you could not eat because of the high levels of PCBs in the food chain. Florida would become a ghost State and people could only talk about how it used to be.
Giant Grouper.
Enjoy the many views of our Beautiful Florida Sea Shores. The photographs on this website are of Florida Gulf Beaches. Many more beach locations are in the plan and you will see them here soon. We are adding new photographs all the time. We photograph in HD and shoot Blu-Ray video of beach weddings and families on the beach too. Please visit our website at www.RobertGladden.com .
TradeWinds Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida, Panorama of Beach.
Trade Winds Island Resorts are one of my favorites with their 14
restaurants and 7 pools. I love the Barefoot Resort too with just one
pool, however; you can walk 2 blocks down the street or down the beach to
John's Pass Village. The world famous Historic Johns Pass Village and
Boardwalk is one of my all-time favorite adventures on the coast. There
are more than 100 shops and fine seafood restaurants to enjoy there. You
can go out fishing, take a boat ride to a shell island or take a sunset
boat ride along the shore. Ride a parasail 200 feet in the sky for some
high adventure or charter a quiet sailboat while you have a Margarita or
two. Do you love seafood like I do, then take your family to the
Friendly Fisherman restaurant, famous for many years now. I take my
family there as often as I can. Bubba Gump, Hooters and Sculleys are
there too. After dinner there is Kilwin’s Chocolates. They have Ice
Cream and Fudge too, oh my! The Bronze Lady knocked my socks off with
its fine art and unique collectibles.
If you would like us to come to your
beach resort and make some beautiful photographs for this website please
give us a call. I will do it for free. Just give me a call. If you would
like a link to your website a small fee would help us cover the cost of
running this website. We can build you a
custom
website too for a normal fee.
813-949-0010, E-mail me:
Robert@RobertGladden.com website:
www.RobertGladden.com .
TradeWinds Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida.
I am just thankful the people of
Florida have learned from this oil spill not to drill for oil up on top
off the Florida continental shelf and closer to our beautiful Florida
Gulf Coast Beaches.
What we should be doing is developing Hydrogen fuel and Solar Cells for the Future. Hydrogen cost nothing once the system is installed and has no pollution or PCB that causes such terrible health problems that oil does. If we had started developing Hydrogen fuel and Solar Cells 45 years ago like I spoke about when I graduated we would not have such a need for oil by now.
The PCB levels from oil in people
my age are half of what is in our children and three times that in the
grandchildren. I wonder how high the PCB levels will be in the children
of our grandchildren. When I graduated I wanted to work with developing
Hydrogen for the clean fuel of the future along with developing higher
quality Solar cells that could be used to make Hydrogen and charge
advanced batteries to run our automobiles. My ultimate dream was to work
with lasers to build a sustain Fusion reactor. Fusion is clean and super
powerful and cost very little to run and is how the Sun works. We all
know how dangerous the Fission reactor are that we use today. I begged
for someone to back me up so I could do the research, but; to no avail.
I still have a lot of beautiful dreams that can make our world better
for our children and the children of our future. Now I know we need oil
for today and we need to drill for new oil, however; we need to do it as
safe as we can and away from Florida Gulf beaches because oil spills do happen.
However we
also need to move our energy needs to Hydrogen and Fusion as fast as we
can for the sake of our grandchildren, for sure.
About 4 years ago the required use of the
Sonic Shut off Valve was deamed not required any more in the United
States. The Sonic Shut off Valve would have stopped the BP Gulf oil well
blow out. This automatic valve is required threw out the world. What we
had on the Gulf BP well was a hydraulic valve that as you know did not
work.
Thankfully here in Florida we are
still beautiful with long clean sandy beaches filled with sprinkles of
seashells, seabirds, sea oats and families with children playing in the
transparent turquois gentle waves. Our sunsets are truly a sight to
behold. If you wish you can find what life is all about here on our
Florida Gulf Beaches especially when you are with someone you love. Walk
the shell islands on a perfectly beautiful afternoon, you may just find
yourself. When I teach the art of beautiful pictures the most important
words I say is:" Learn What Your Heart Already Knows”
BareFoot Resort, Maderia Beach, Florida.
We enjoy making those beautiful
photographs for us all to enjoy. We hope the knowledge of how beautiful
our world is will inspire you and me and all of us to take care of our
special planet that we all live in. I pray with all of my heart that our
children 100 years from now will play on our beautiful Florida Gulf
beaches just like we do ever chance we get.
When we teach the art of making beautiful pictures we began by saying: First, No business or negative thoughts. "Take your watch off you are here now". "Learn what Your Heart Already Knows", then "Slow down so your Heart can catch up with your Mind". Just let yourself go free, stop talking and enjoy the beauty and the sound of free formed life all around you. Soon you will be seeing and hearing with your Heart. Your eyes may fill with tears and your sole may roll with goose bumps when you become present in your day in paradise. Now you are ready to make that beautiful picture you have been dreaming about. Then, take the picture! Take another. Now you can turn your brain on keeping it in tune with you heart. With your heart and mind in tune you can creatively form the composition and camera technique it takes to make that special picture artistic. Now take the picture.
Do not be so afraid of takeing a picture and making a mistake and getting a bad shot. You will get bad shots and you will get good shots. You may also get that great shot too. If you do not take a shot you will have nothing. You can throw out the bad shots later, but; you cannot go back and get the shot you missed. With the images upload to your computer you can select your best shots and put them in your keeper folder. I like to take all of the photographs made that day, the good and bad, load them into a slide show and set to music. After dinner we can all sit down together and laugh at the bad shots enjoy the good shots and look for the great shots. Now is the time to just let go of your mind and have fun with your friends. If you know how to work Adobe Photoshop you can enjoy your photographs even more. Tomorrow’s adventure will be a brand new day on the forever changing seashore. Remember Love is always the key, because it is both the question and the answer to all that you do. We invite you to visit our website at: www.RobertGladden.com . Look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on our beautiful Florida Gulf Coast Seashores with someone your love.
SO, Let's Go Swimming in our beautiful waters and walk the long snow white sugar sand beaches sprinkled with sea shells and sea oats and sea birds too. Swim in the endless waves and become part of the seashore and the sky above. Experience dramatic sunsets over a gentle sea with someone you love. There are few places like this in the entire world, in fact in the entire universe. Then enjoy a great dinner at one of our many fine restaurants. Go fishing on one of our charter boats; take a ride to Egmont Island or to one of the shell islands where you may just find yourself. Just let go of your mind and listen to the forever changing waves that have been rolling in on our seashores for longer than I can dream. Live your adventure and swim in those waves of dreams that are as real as the songs of life itself.
"Learn What Your Heart Already Knows"
Life is the Adventure
Live Your Florida Adventure and Swim in those
Waves of Dreams that are as Real as the Songs of Life Itself
"Florida No
Oil on Our Beach"
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