As if Dunedin’s Main Street weren’t already quaint enough, now there’s Sandy Gull’s Sweets. Nestled into a corner on the east end, the shop has big windows, round tables with rattan chairs and counters lined with nostalgia-inducing sweets like wax bottles and Necco Wafers. Plus, the ice cream is that long-time Tampa favorite, Old Meeting House, and there’s a sweet backstory, too, about the eponymous Sandy Gull. Owner Mary Staller was so entertained by a mischievous gull she saw on the beach one day that she wrote a children’s book about the bird that’s available in the shop. Any child who brings in the gull feather found in the back of each book can cash it in for a future treat.
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2007.