Thursday, May 2, 2013

Day 198 Apr 30 52 mi Marineland Marina Marineland FL

Tuesday morning.....soft rain....8:05 AM....time to leave New Smyrna Beach Marina and head up the ICW.  Destination today Marineland Marina.


Pelican Cove from the water
 
 
Low Tide and Rain...testing the captain's skills
 
 
Lots of older homes along the Halifax River
 
 
Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse is 159 feet, the tallest lighthouse in Florida and the second tallest in the nation.  The lighthouse, part of Lighthouse Point Park, is now fully restored, including the keeper's house and all its out-buildings.
 
 

This is closest we will get
 
 
We take the Ponce De Leon Cut
 
 
Lighthouse from the cut....just marsh
 
 
Last Shot
 
 
Daytona is synonymous with car racing and is the site of the International Speedway.  But, the city of Ormond also shares credit as the "birthplace of speed."  It was on the 23-miles of hardpacked beach sand spanning Daytona and Ormond Beach where race car driving began.
 
 
7 cruisers racing toward us....hold on Saddi
 
 
Shrimp boat
 
 
Condos on the Daytona Beach
 
 
Beautiful homes on the ICW
 
 
How many bedrooms does this have
 
 
Daytona Beach Municipal Yacht Basin
 
 
Dophins and Mantees on Memorial Bridge
 
 
 
No Condos just homes between Daytona and Ormond Beach
 
 
Old Boat House on the River
 
 
  Old Florida
 
 
Marsh Land after you leave Ormond Beach
 
 
Middle of nowhere.....15 foot bridge
 
 
"When you get here Captain I'll have it open"
 
 
Flagler Beach
 
 
Take your pick...Green or Pink Houseboat
 
 
Stm 804 has an interesting story....the waterway, then called the East Coast Canal, originally took a sharp 90-degree turn at G1. Seems President Herber Hoover was transiting the canal aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia when it made the abrupt turn at G1, Hoover was thrown from his chair. As the story goes, Hoover shouted, "Someone ought to straighten out this damn curve." So they did!

 
Stm 804
 
 
Pretty places
 
 
Now beautiful homes line the area
 
 
You think homeowners say "Thank You President Hoover"
 
 
G1
 
 
You can see the bridge to the "now" island
 
 
Everyone has a boat at Palm Coast
 
 
You can take a Dinner Cruise at Hammock Beach
 
 
Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
 
 
Marineland Marina
 
 
University of Florida's Whitney Lab
 
 
Saddi's playground
 
 
Floating Docks....interesting Day!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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