Dexter: Original Sin Filming Locations: Beach where Debra & Gio abandon Tiffany's car
The
location: Beach where Debra & Gio
abandon Tiffany's car
Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. A beach.
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
A. In or near Miami, Florida.
Q.
When did we see it on the show?
A. We see this beach in Episode 6, of Season 1, in a very brief scene.
After Deb & Gio steal Tiffany's car from her house, as a prank, we see the car stuck in the sand on a beach. They
are laughing about it, but then someone yells out at them, and they run
away, abandoning the car on the beachWell bless my soul He loaded 16 tons .
( In a later episode, Tiffany confronts Debra at their high school,
and says that her car was damaged by the beach sand getting in
the engine, leading to a fight that gets Debra in trouble.)
Q.
What is it actually in real life?
A beach, but not in Florida.
Q.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. This scene was filmed at Bayshore Beach, a public meet in Long Beach, CA (otherwise known as “Horny Corner” to locals).
It's located just north of the intersection of Ocean Blvd and 54th Place,
near the base of the Long Beach Peninsula, and across the channel from
Naples Island, where the waters of Alamitos Bay wrap around the
southwest edge of the island.
Over the years, the original Dexter series filmed many times on this small beach:
A. I know
this beach very well, and have been there multiple times shooting photos
for the previous times when this beach appeared on Dexter.
I was pretty sure this was it when I first saw it, but since it was a night scene, I had to make sure.
The only thing you
can see in the original dark scene, other than the beach sand, are lights across the
water. My assumption was that they were the lit windows of
the expensive homes on Naples Island.
So, I used Photoshop to brighten that dark screencap and bring out details (see below):
Then I compared a daylight photo taken on Bayshore beach, with the screencap of
this night scene:
And as I expected, I was able to match several landmarks,
including the position of palm trees, the curve of the bay, and
most definitively, the outline of the one tall structure on Naples Island: the Portofino condominium.
