Tarpon Springs Florida

Tarpon Springs is a great place to live. If it?s Tarpon Springs real estate you are interested in, Tarpon Springs offers many types of homes, from bungalows to gated communities to mansions. You can enjoy the waterfront view from your front porch along the beautiful Anclote River. There are many beautiful waterfront communities in Tarpon Springs along the Gulf of Mexico and bordering Lake Tarpon. For roughly $3 million dollars you can buy a 6000 square foot home that is reminiscent of old European grandeur on S. Florida Avenue that has a wide open view of the Gulf of Mexico. The property sits on 1.6 private acres. On the low end, you can buy a condo-hotel with waterfront access for under $150,000. There are many other great choices in between for Tarpon Springs real estate on and off the water.

For recreational activities in Tarpon Springs, my family and I have spent many days at Howard Park, with picnic facilities, playgrounds and its own beach where we enjoy the beautiful Florida sunsets. Tarpon Springs is known for its historic Sponge Docks and the biggest Epiphany celebration in the country, held annually in the month of February. You can enjoy authentic Greek food and pastries in its many restaurants. We enjoy a little restaurant called Plakas where they say they are the ?Greek McDonalds?. They have wonderful gyros and offer appetizers of Greek specialties such as marinated octopus! The Sponge Dock area also offers shopping, day-trip cruises, casino cruises or fishing trips. You can have a tour aboard a sponge boat and watch divers as they retrieve sponges from the Gulf of Mexico. You can also visit authentic Greek clubs where men spend the afternoon telling stories and playing cards.

Along with its Sponge Docks, Tarpon Springs offers a 120,000 gallon aquarium, a Performing Arts Center, a Cultural Center, and the Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art which has been brought to the city by the St. Petersburg College of Tarpon Springs. For the fourth time in four years, St. Pete College has been rated number 1 in the state of Florida for distance education.

We also enjoy attending the Sunset Beach concerts, The Fine Arts Festival each April and attending wine tasting events at the Tarpon Springs Castle Winery. The historic downtown area offers First Fridays and Second Saturdays where the shops and restaurants are open late and there often is free entertainment to enjoy while you shop and dine.

Tarpon Springs, in northern Pinellas County, is centrally located to Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and is only 90 minutes away from Disney World and Sea World which are in Orlando, Florida. Tarpon Springs is a great place to call home or buy real estate with all it has to offer.

Posted by Sandra Bangerter on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Latitude: 21.30895 -- Longitude: -157.826182

ZIP Codes for Honolulu, Hawaii	96801 96802 96803 96804 96805 96806 96807 96808 96809 96810 96811 96812 96813 96814 96815 96816 96817 96818 96819 96820 96821 96822 96823 96824 96825 96826 96827 96828 96830 96835 96836 96837 96838 96839 96840 96841 96842 96843 96844 96846 96847 96848 96849 96850
Area Code for Honolulu, Hawaii	808
Time zone for Honolulu, Hawaii	PST-2

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Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. State of Hawai?i. In the Hawaiian language, honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter." The census-designated place (CDP) is located along the southeast coast of the island of O?ahu. The term also refers to the District of Honolulu (see Geography below). As of July 1, 2004, the United States Census Bureau estimate for Honolulu puts the population at 377,260 and that of the city and county (essentially, the Island of O?ahu) at 900,000. In Hawai?i, local governments operate only at the county level, and the City & County of Honolulu encompasses all of the Island of O?ahu (approximately 600 square miles). -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Hawaii 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Honolulu	Hawaii	United States
Population	371,657	1,211,537	281,421,906
Median age	39.7	36.2	35.3
Median age for Male	38.4	35.1	34
Median age for Female	41.1	37.4	36.5
Households	140,337	403,240	105,480,101
Household population	360,371	1,175,755	273,643,273
Average household size	2.57	2.92	2.59
Families	87,374	287,068	71,787,347
Average family size	3.23	3.42	3.14
Housing units	158,663	460,542	115,904,641
Occupied units	140,337	403,240	105,480,101
Vacant units	18,326	57,302	10,424,540

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