Broward's Mystery* Beach 
  (Possible Halloween Angle)
    Today we offer another in a series of Simple Story Ideas (SSI) for today's journalistically challenged reporters that we provide once a week as a public service for the local news media.
       Each SSI will include a collection of startling data* which – with only a simple softball interview, instamatic art and/or B roll footage – should enable today's newspaper and/or television reporter to produce a “story” that will pass for real news. (*Plus a helpful hint for the seriously challenged journalist.).

South Florida Park           Total Visitors                % up (down)
                                        2003                    2008
Miami-Dade
The Barnacle                 26,063                 31,545         21%
Cape Florida                 811,236               893,543      10%
Oleta River                    302,311                357,178      18%

Broward
Hugh Taylor Birch         216,254                225,545      4%
John Lloyd Beach    670,170                495,609     (26%)

Source: Florida Stastical Abstract

Basic Hint: Notice how the number of visits to Broward's John Loyd State Bark has been underlined and printed in boldfaced red ink. Does this mean something?

Fox TV News Hint: Google sensational Whiskey Creek murders and Murph the Surf (Star of India) jewel thief for possible haunted beach angle featuring live reporting at dusk from Loyd Beach close by where bodies of murdered women were found -- run story near Halloween..