Laughing Lizard

The Laughing Lizard Bed & Breakfast is a tin-roofed, three-story, Key Westy island home built in 2005. Located in the quaint island community of Indian Rocks Beach just south of Clearwater Beach in the Tampa Bay area on Florida's west coast, this casual B & B is a contemporary throwback to the cottage-style architecture that speaks to Indian Rocks Beach's roots.Fifty-six windows offer an eyewitness view of beachlife as it happens on Gulf Boulevard, the main thoroughfare in a barrier island beach community termed by a USA Todayarticle as "the best beach town of all." Creatively colorful and eclectic guestrooms — all with private baths — make beachlife as exciting indoors as it is outdoors.The style here is eclectically casual and laid back. In the morning, enjoy breakfast in Lizard Hall...where you'll get a chuckle as you spot ceramic, metal, wood, clay, glass and fabric lizards lounging about in some of the most unexpected places...and yes...they are laughing. Coffee in hand, stroll across Gulf Boulevard to the beach for a morning walk. Ride the local beach trolley to the nature park, historical museum, many wonderful restaurants and other beach destinations up and down the coast from Clearwater Beach south to St. Pete Beach. Then sip a taste of afternoon wine and experience the sunset...maybe even witness the "green flash"...as the sun finally melts into the Gulf of Mexico at the end of a perfect day. It's more than just great sunsets and waves lapping at the shore. It's wonderful restaurants,museums, galleries, shops and so much fun — even the lizards are laughing.