Caddy\u2019s Treasure Island<\/a> about three times a week, a place that is still rebuilding its restaurant and a beach they\u2019ve seen transform after being damaged during the 2024 hurricane season.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat they have done is borderline remarkable. They put all the beaches back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s stunning. We usually do our walks up and down, all the way from Sloppy Joe\u2019s to here,\u201d Shelly said.<\/p>\n
Now that the beach renourishment project has been completed for a couple of weeks, kitchen manager Erik Morris says they are getting a sense of normalcy back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we first opened up, people were trickling in because I think everybody went a little stir crazy. But in the last week or two, it started to pick up a little bit. As you can see today, we are busy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also says the beach is now twice as big as it was before, and with spring break and St. Patrick\u2019s Day coming up, they have much more space to welcome guests.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, it\u2019s a great thing. It\u2019s the biggest I\u2019ve seen the beach since I\u2019ve been down here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Like many of our local beach businesses, staff at Caddy\u2019s tell us they are still rebuilding and making progress.<\/p>\n
Bay area schools are still a few weeks away from spring break, but spring breakers are expected to start showing up this week and stick around for the next six weeks or so.<\/p>\n
Last year, Tampa International Airport<\/a> saw more than 3.3 million passengers during the spring break season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Businesses along the beaches in Pinellas County are counting on a big spring break…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2031,274,558,27600,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-175886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-local-business","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-julia-hazel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pinellas-county","14":"tag-st-pete","15":"tag-st-pete-headlines","16":"tag-st-pete-news","17":"tag-st-petersburg","18":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","19":"tag-st-petersburg-news","20":"tag-tampa","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}