Attribution
Photo credits
Most of the area photography here comes from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, which require attribution. Our own drone photography is marked as such.
| Area | Image | Photographer | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parrish / Palmetto | The DeSoto Bridge over the Manatee River, the link between Palmetto and Bradenton. | Sanibel sun | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Parrish / Palmetto | Gamble Mansion, Ellenton. Built in the 1840s and the only plantation house still standing in peninsular Florida. | Ebyabe | CC BY-SA 3.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Parrish / Palmetto | Emerson Point, Palmetto. The Manatee River opening into Tampa Bay, seen from the observation tower. | Packer1028 | CC0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Parrish / Palmetto | Florida Railroad Museum, Parrish. The ticket office is itself a rail car. | Ebyabe | CC BY-SA 3.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Bradenton | Downtown Bradenton, a few blocks from the Riverwalk. | Vasiliymeshko | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Bradenton | Anna Maria Island, the island Bradenton drives to. About twenty minutes from downtown. | Hall & Hoolihan | Own photograph | Own photograph |
| Bradenton | Bradenton Riverwalk. The park that turned downtown back toward the river. | The Grid | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Bradenton | The 1912 Cortez schoolhouse, now the Florida Maritime Museum. | Manateehistory | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Bradenton | De Soto National Memorial, at the mouth of the Manatee River. | Ebyabe | CC BY-SA 3.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Lakewood Ranch | Nathan Benderson Park. The finish tower on the 400 acre rowing lake, 17 minutes from the middle of Lakewood Ranch. | Architecttype | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Lakewood Ranch | The 3.4 mile loop at Benderson is the closest thing Lakewood Ranch has to a public waterfront. | Carol VanHook | CC BY 2.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Lakewood Ranch | The Braden River, which runs along the western edge of Lakewood Ranch and past Jiggs Landing. | Paul R. Burley | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Sarasota | The Sarasota skyline over the bay. | Cullen Morgan | CC BY 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Sarasota | Longboat Key in the late light, one of the barrier islands off Sarasota. | Hall & Hoolihan | Own photograph | Own photograph |
| Sarasota | Ca' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on the bay. Part of the 1927 bequest that gave Sarasota its arts scene. | LittleOrphanDani | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Sarasota | Siesta Key. The sand is about 99 percent quartz, which is why it stays cool at midday. | Ryan Gamma | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wellen Park / Venice | Venice beachfront, about fifteen minutes from Wellen Park. | Yinzer1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wellen Park / Venice | The Gulf, roughly fifteen minutes west of Wellen Park. | Hall & Hoolihan | Own photograph | Own photograph |
| Wellen Park / Venice | Venice Fishing Pier. No licence needed, and most people out there are not fishing. | Don Miller | CC BY 2.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wellen Park / Venice | Myakka canopy walkway, the first public treetop trail in North America. | Shockblaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wellen Park / Venice | Venice Avenue. John Nolen laid the street plan out on paper in the 1920s before a building went up. | Dayna Barnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 | View on Wikimedia Commons |
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