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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Sunny Pines, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sunny Pines and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Sunny Pines:
- 28.128300, -82.481900
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Sunny Pines
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Hillsborough County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hillsborough County
- Since Sunny Pines is near Pasco County and also Pinellas County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pasco County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pinellas County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Sunny Pines
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sunny Pines ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Calm Harbour
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Calm Harbour is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calm Harbour
- Candlelight
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Candlelight is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candlelight
- Cedarwood
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Cedarwood is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarwood
- Coopers Bayou
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Coopers Bayou is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers Bayou
- Coventry
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Coventry is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventry
- Crystal Cove
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Crystal Cove is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Cove
- Crystal Lakes
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Crystal Lakes is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lakes
- Cypress Cove
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Cypress Cove is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Cove
- Cypress Head
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cypress Head is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Head
- Cypress Meadows
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Cypress Meadows is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Meadows
- Deer Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Deer Creek is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek
- Deer Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Deer Park is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Park
- Continue List (31 more) ...
- Deer Run
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Deer Run is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Run
- Edgewater
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Edgewater is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater
- Elysian Fields
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Elysian Fields is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elysian Fields
- Emerald Cove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Emerald Cove is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Cove
- Evergreen North
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Evergreen North is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen North
- Garden Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Garden Grove is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Grove
- Green Meadow
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Green Meadow is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadow
- Griffin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Griffin is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffin
- Heritage Harbor
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Heritage Harbor is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Harbor
- Heritage Harbor Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Holly Lane
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Holly Lane is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Lane
- Hounds Hollow
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hounds Hollow is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hounds Hollow
- Indian Head
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Indian Head is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Head
- Indian Mound Village
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Indian Mound Village is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Mound Village
- Lake Charles
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Lake Charles is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Charles
- Lake Keen
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Keen is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Keen
- Manor Oaks
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Manor Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Oaks
- Marilyn Shores
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Marilyn Shores is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marilyn Shores
- Pond Eddy
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Pond Eddy is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Eddy
- Popes
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Popes is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Popes
- Reflections
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Reflections is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reflections
- Regalwoods
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Regalwoods is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regalwoods
- Sapphire Lake
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Sapphire Lake is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapphire Lake
- Shady Pines
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Shady Pines is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Pines
- Shagbark
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Shagbark is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shagbark
- Tropical Lakes
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Tropical Lakes is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tropical Lakes
- Turning Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Turning Point is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turning Point
- Waterbridge
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Waterbridge is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbridge
- Wildwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Wildwood is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
- Willow Creek
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Willow Creek is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
- Willow Pond
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Willow Pond is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Pond
How Far From Sunny Pines to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Sunny Pines to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Sunny Pines and extending to:
- Tampa, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Sunny Pines to Tampa, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 192 miles [309 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 806 miles [1,297.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,612 miles [10,641 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,282 miles [11,719.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,180 miles [8,336.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sunny Pines) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <3> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Sunny Pines to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunny Pines. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.1283, Longitude: -82.4819 In this case, the coordinates for Sunny Pines have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.855 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.28 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.862 degrees. |
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