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Team Hired to Photograph Florida's Beaches for Google Street View Traumatized by Nudists
Just what kind of weird stuff did those cameras pick up?
Earlier this year Google and Visit Florida, the state's tourism agency, recruited four men to walk 825 miles of Florida's coastline while wearing 45-pound backpacks equipped with 15-lens camera towers. After four months of walking, the four men—four saints, really—finished their journey Wednesday night at South Pointe Park in Miami Beach.
The men told the Miami Herald that they had an OK time, but are mostly happy that the job is done. The packs were heavy, the weather was hot, the walks were long, and the nude beaches, of which Florida has quite a few, were a huge disappointment: