Picture this: A sandy, 25-mile stretch of beach, just a three-hour drive from Miami but devoid of grocery stores or gas stations, restaurants, bars or hotels. Instead, sea turtles nest on the beach, their hatchlings’ sense of orientation protected by dark-sky rules and by long-term residents who know to handle them with care on their extensive strolls along a quiet, windswept beach.
Welcome to Brevard County’s southern barrier island, one of the least developed areas on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
It’s a quaint, still pristine paradise to the few thousand people who settled in mostly bungalow-style homes, many of them escapees from Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and other places they say were over-developed.
And it all seemed at risk just a few years ago.
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