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Clearwater, FL
Clearwater sits along the Gulf Coast directly west of Tampa across Old Tampa Bay, and Clearwater Beach, its barrier-island beach community connected to the mainland by causeway, has repeatedly ranked among the top beaches in the entire United States in national travel surveys for its wide stretch of soft white sand. The city has been the international spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology since the organization purchased a former hotel downtown in 1975, a presence that's grown substantially over the following decades to include a significant concentration of Scientology-owned buildings throughout the downtown core, making Clearwater's civic and commercial landscape genuinely distinctive relative to comparable Gulf Coast cities. Clearwater Marine Aquarium, made nationally famous by Winter the dolphin — a rescued dolphin fitted with a prosthetic tail whose story became the basis for the 2011 film "Dolphin Tale" — has drawn visitors well beyond the immediate area specifically to see the same dolphin whose recovery was documented on film. Clearwater's combination of a nationally top-ranked beach, a uniquely significant Scientology institutional presence downtown, and a globally recognized rescued-dolphin story has made it one of the more distinctive suburbs anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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Apollo Beach, FL
Apollo Beach sits on Tampa Bay south of the city, developed substantially around an extensive network of man-made canals that give a large share of the community's homes direct boat access to the bay, a waterfront-lot density unusual for a suburb this close to a major metro area's core. The community sits directly adjacent to the Tampa Electric Company's Big Bend Power Station, whose warm water discharge canal has become an unlikely wildlife attraction — manatees gather there by the hundreds during winter months, drawn to the artificially warmed water, and the utility company has built a public manatee viewing center specifically to accommodate visitors drawn to the seasonal gathering. Apollo Beach's canal-front development pattern has made it a particularly popular choice for boating enthusiasts specifically seeking direct water access from their own property, a lifestyle draw distinct from the more inland, golf-course-oriented planned communities found elsewhere in the Tampa suburbs. Apollo Beach's combination of extensive canal-front boating access and its unexpected role as a major winter manatee gathering site has made it one of the more distinctively waterfront-oriented suburbs anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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