By Saturday, July 23, 2005
* The first turtle hatchlings of the season on Hilton Head Island emerged Wednesday from their nest on a Palmetto Dunes beach. But many headed straight for the dunes to an almost certain death -Beaufort Gazette, 7-23-05
* Daufuskie Island won't be getting a lock-harbor marina or the restaurants, grocery store and other businesses proposed for development around it any time soon -Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-23-05
* For denizens of the Intracoastal, the brackish water symbolizes not only the Florida lifestyle, but a wa`y of life in and of itself -Florida Times Union, 7-23-05
* Effective Aug. 9, the National Marine Fisheries Service will implement a temporary emergency measure that will reduce the daily bag limit of grouper from five per person per day to three. The measure further shuts down all grouper fishing in federal waters from Nov. 1 to Dec. 3
* Pensacola Beach will be open for business to the public again July 24 for the first time since Hurricane Dennis roared ashore July 10
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-23-05
* Posey's Oyster Bar at St. Marks managed to open for business at 5 p.m. Friday after almost two weeks of shoveling mud, scooping water and tossing out soggy stuff damaged by Hurricane Dennis * Business couldn't be better for the salvage companies rescuing boats flung aside by Hurricane Dennis
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-23-05
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