Explore Deeper Than the Destination

The Coastal Community Travel Network helps you discover America’s coastal communities through places to visit, local events, outdoor adventures, fresh seafood, and authentic experiences.

But every harbor has a deeper story.

Behind every fishing boat is a family.
Behind every seafood meal is a working waterfront.
Behind every destination is a community whose traditions have been shaped by the sea.

That’s where our Coastal Explorer Guides begin.

Beautifully illustrated and filled with history, heritage, working waterfronts, and regional recipes, each guide takes you beyond the postcard to discover the people, fisheries, and traditions that make America’s coastal communities unforgettable.

🌊 Visit

Explore coastal communities.

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🚤 Experience

Meet the people, taste the seafood, enjoy the traditions.

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📚 Take the Story Home

Collect beautifully illustrated Coastal Explorer Guides that preserve America’s working waterfront heritage.

Featured Coastal Explorer Guide

Why We Are Expanding Our Amazon Kindle e-Book Series

At Coastal Foodies, our mission has always been simple:

Help more families discover America’s coastal communities through stories, food, history, and adventure.

For many years, we published beautifully illustrated paperback books. We still love the experience of holding a printed book in your hands.

But the reality is that producing high-quality, full-color paperbacks has become increasingly expensive. By the time printing, shipping, and taxes are added, many books can approach $30 or more before they reach a reader.

We believe great stories should be accessible to as many people as possible.

That’s why we’re expanding our collection of Amazon Kindle Explorer Guides.

For $12.99, readers receive immediate delivery and can begin exploring within minutes on a Kindle, tablet, phone, or computer using the free Kindle app.

Our Kindle editions also allow us to offer features that simply aren’t possible in print, including:

• Direct links to CoastalFoodies.com
• Updated recipes and bonus content
• Heritage Poster galleries
• Community stories
• Family activities
• Audio greetings from Shelly and Chef Pescado Pete (coming in future editions)

Perhaps most importantly, lower prices allow more families, teachers, libraries, and students to enjoy these Explorer Guides together.

This new publishing approach lets us spend less time worrying about printing costs and more time creating new adventures for readers.

Our goal hasn’t changed.

Make learning about America’s coastal communities fun, affordable, and available to everyone.

Thank you for exploring with us.

Our AMAZON KINDLE series helps families create more quality time around the table while celebrating and preserving the cultural traditions that make every community unique.

We’ll see you on the trail.

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Our Cajun Tables

Where There’s Always Room for One More

• Introduces the Celebration Through Innovation philosophy.
• Demonstrates practical ways to prepare traditional family meals using today’s countertop appliances.
• Focuses on preserving Cajun hospitality while creating more quality time for family gatherings.
• Establishes Pete and Shelly’s journey.

Our Lebanese Tables

Where Every Guest Is Family

• Explores one of the world’s oldest traditions of hospitality.
• Shows how generosity, family, and community shape everyday life.
• Expands Pete and Shelly’s understanding of the values that connect cultures.
• Introduces another piece of the Hospitality Narrative.

Explore. Connect. Experience the Coast

Pescado Pete & Shelly the Sea Turtle

These stories, paperback books, artwork, and travel adventures are built around two unforgettable guides: Pescado Pete and Shelly the Sea Turtle.

Pete represents curiosity, culinary adventure, storytelling, and the joy of discovering coastal cultures through food. Shelly represents conservation, environmental awareness, and the importance of protecting fragile marine habitats for future generations. Together, they help transform coastal travel into something larger than tourism alone. They invite families to slow down, explore, cook together, and reconnect with the traditions that make coastal communities special.

Why cooking?

Because food is one of the last great bridges between generations.

Family recipes carry stories. Seafood boils bring neighbors together. Harbor cafés become gathering places. Grandparents teach traditions at the kitchen table that children remember for the rest of their lives. Through cooking, young readers and families learn not only how to prepare meals, but also where food comes from, why sustainable oceans matter, and how coastal cultures have been shaped by fishermen, farmers, travelers, and local communities for centuries.

Our books combine:

• coastal travel adventures
• regional food traditions
• family-friendly recipes
• environmental stewardship
• sea turtle conservation
• local history and storytelling
• vintage-inspired artwork and travel posters

Whether we are exploring the fishing docks of Destin Harbor, the cafés of 30A, the turtle rescue centers of the Gulf Coast, or hidden seafood shacks along coastal backroads, our goal is always the same:

To celebrate the soul of coastal living while inspiring the next generation to protect it.

We hope these stories encourage families to cook together, travel together, laugh together, and become lifelong stewards of the coastlines we all treasure.

From our Gulf Coast family to yours…

Welcome aboard the adventure.

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Where pirate legends meet sea turtle adventures and Gulf Coast flavor. Explore the Emerald Coast through vintage travel posters, coastal cookbooks, waterfront stories, hidden harbor gems, and family-friendly culinary adventures inspired by the beaches, fishing villages, and island spirit of the Gulf Coast. From seafood shacks and harbor sunsets to turtle trails and treasure-map recipes, CoastalFoodies.com celebrates the soul of coastal living one delicious destination at a time.

Mayan Tex-Mex Turtle Trail is a culinary travel adventure that invites readers to explore how ancient Mayan cooking traditions gradually evolved into the vibrant Tex-Mex cuisine enjoyed today.

Guided by Chef Pescado Pete and his thoughtful companion Shelly the Sea Turtle, readers travel across Mexico and Texas discovering how landscapes, ingredients, and cultures shape the food we eat.

If you love great food, fine wine and coastal travel, you’ve come to the right place! Coastal Foodies of Florida presents your go-to guide for discovering the best flavors, hidden gems, and unforgettable experiences around coastal regions worldwide.
✅ Awesome food and wine experiences with group travel packages to coastal destinations
✅ Share chef-inspired recipes & foodie tips
✅ Support sea turtle conservation

Adventure meets discovery in this beautifully illustrated culinary journey through Lake Tahoe, the Sierra Mountains, and Napa Valley.

In Tahoe Turtle Trail, young explorers join Pescado Pete, Chef Sierra, Shelly the sea turtle, and their traveling culinary crew on an unforgettable adventure where cooking, curiosity, and the natural world come together.

Act Now For A Sustainable Future

Rooted in our commitment to fostering a healthier planet, we strive to create a positive impact on coastal communities through the following pillars:

A. Preservation of Coastal Ecosystems: Our mission involves actively supporting initiatives that conserve marine life, prevent pollution, and contribute to the overall well-being of coastal habitats.

B. Advocacy for Responsible Consumption: By promoting sustainable seafood practices and eco-friendly alternatives, we empower individuals to make decisions that positively impact the health of our oceans and coastal communities.

C. Community Empowerment: Collaborate with local artisans, businesses, and community leaders to create opportunities for growth and development and build networks of interconnected communities that share our dedication to environmental stewardship.

We are dedicated to the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems. Our mission involves actively supporting initiatives that conserve marine life, prevent pollution, and contribute to the overall well-being of coastal habitats.

We hope you appreciate the blog posts that follow and the stories we will be telling along the way. Please offer comments and suggestions to pass on to our visitors.

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