Collins Avenue Webcam in South Beach

At first glance, this live feed streaming from Collins Avenue in South Beach, Florida, doesn’t appear to be overly exciting. Our advice is keep watching and it may give you, if not exactly food for thought, a little mental snack to keep your grey cells functioning. Join the feed in the early hours of the Florida morning and you’ll be left wondering why it takes so long for the traffic lights to change when there’s only two cars heading in the same direction in sight. And why the odd pedestrian or two feel the need to run rather than walk across the crossings. Curious indeed. Maybe they’re just late for work.

South Beach, a luxurious neighborhood of Miami Beach, has come a long way in the last one-hundred and fifty years. It’s undergone a steady, but relentless development which has seen it change from a coconut plantation to top class beach resort. There are now more hotels and deluxe condos lining the Atlantic and Biscayne Bay coastline of South Beach than there ever were coconut palms. A fact which, not surprisingly, has turned out to be quite profitable for the investors.

South Beach isn’t a city in its own right, but it’s still the permanent home to over thirty-thousand people. South Beach, with its three long beaches and infamous nightlife, is also a magnet for sun and fun-seekers. And while they may not be apparent on this feed of Collins Avenue, the neighborhood’s Art Deco buildings are look-worthy to anyone interested, or even not particularly interested, in architecture of that period. While you might not put South Beach at the top of your must-visit in the US list, it should definitely be on there somewhere.