The Pointe’s neighborhood supports and enriches our quality of life.\u00a0 In less than 10 minutes you can walk to a major Gulf beach, three restaurants, and a marina.\u00a0 With a kayak or canoe, you can reach the Jim Neville Marine Preserve in about the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 10-minute walk from the Pointe’s gate brings you to Sarasota’s Turtle Beach Park located on the Gulf side of Midnight Pass Road.\u00a0 It features many amenities including ample parking, restrooms, playground equipment, several picnic shelters, and outdoor showers. There are, however, no lifeguards at Turtle Beach.\u00a0 Free boat ramps on Blind Pass Lagoon provide boaters easy passage to and from Little Sarasota Bay. Although the sand at Turtle Beach isn’t as fine as Crescent Beach farther up the key, it makes up the difference in privacy. Here you’ll be able to walk for miles, all the way to Casey Key to the south if you wish.\u00a0 On your walk, you may find prehistoric petrified sharks teeth that are millions of years old.\u00a0 (Better specimens can be found on Casperson Beach but you’ll have to drive to Venice to find them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three restaurants are also within that 10\nminute walk. All are located on the\nLittle Sarasota Bay side of Midnight Pass Road. \nAll are regularly patronized by Pointe residents. The Turtle Beach Pub is just a few steps\nacross the road from the Turtle Beach entrance. \nThe Pub features a sports theme, outdoor dining, and the expected bar\nfood offerings. Its hamburgers are well\nreceived as are its grouper sandwiches. \nImmediately next door, directly across from the entrance to Turtle\nBeach, is Turtles, a full menu restaurant with outdoor dining on Little\nSarasota Bay. Turtles is known for its\nSunday Brunch and live entertainment several evenings during the week. The third restaurant, Ophelia’s, is a shorter\nwalk from The Pointe by about 5 minutes. \nRecognized as one of the finer restaurants in Sarasota; Ophelia’s\nfeatures a name chef, an extensive wine list, attentive service, outdoor dining\non the Bay, and valet parking. \nReservations are encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Turtle Beach Marina is located on\nLittle Sarasota Bay behind the Pub. The\nmarina has a variety of boats for rent by the day. Services include inside storage, engine\nmaintenance \/ repair, and fuel. There is\na berth at the marina for boaters who wish to dine at Turtles or the Turtle\nBeach Pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Jim Neville Marine Preserve is\nimmediately to the east of The Pointe. \nYou’ll need a kayak (or other shallow draft boat) to explore the\nPreserve and observe its abundance of birds and marine life. The Preserve is made up of several small\nislands technically known as the Bird Keys. \nAll tolled there are 35 acres of islands and tidal shallows; so it takes\na couple of hours to circle the islands by kayak. Because every residence at the Pointe has a\nlanai facing the Preserve, all residents (even those without kayaks) have\nabundant opportunities for unobstructed bird watching. Brown pelicans, great blue herons,\ncormorants, anhinga, ospreys, great egrets, snowy egrets, cattle egrets,\nkingfishers, wood storks, white ibis, night herons, and roseate spoonbills are\ncommonly observed. Bird numbers and mix\nchange daily and of course with the seasons. \nFor this reason telescopes and binoculars are common accessories on\nPointe lanais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Pointe’s neighborhood supports and enriches our quality of life.\u00a0 In less than 10 minutes you can walk to a major Gulf beach, three restaurants, and a marina.\u00a0 With a kayak or canoe, you can reach the Jim Neville Marine Preserve in about the same time. A 10-minute walk from the Pointe’s gate brings you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepointeonsiestakey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}