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florida SPACE & TIME
East Coast
For the Europeans, after discovering what they called “The New World,” Florida’s East Coast was the last leg of the long journeys on which they had usually raped, pillaged, and plundered their way through South and Central America, in a blind and aggressive lust for gold, silver, and precious stones, with little or no concern for the native people they encountered. Although Florida was populated by many individual tribes, the Spaniards called them all “Indians,” because Christopher Columbus thought he was headed to India when he ran into the tropical islands, later named the Bahamas.
EAST COAST CITIES
(North to South)
Cumberland Island, Georgia
FERNANDINA BEACH
Amelia Island
Black Hammock Island
St. Johns River
TIMUCUAN Ecological and Historical Preserve
Atlantic Beach
Neptune Beach
JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville Beach
Ponte Vedra
GUANA TOLOMATO
MATANAZAS NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE
Vilano Beach
ST. AUGUSTINE
St. Augustine Beach
Crescent Beach
(west to Spud / Hastings / Palatka / St. Johns River)
FLAGLER BEACH
ORMOND BEACH (SR40)
DAYTONA BEACH
New Smyrna Beach (SR44)
INLAND EXCURSION
SR44 >> west
Deland / De Leon Springs
CASSADAGA
Orange City
BLUE SPRING
SR44 >> east
(US1)
New Smyrna Beach
Edgewater
Mims
TITUSVILLE
PLAYALINDA (Dunes/Nude [Apollo] Beach)
BANANA RIVER
Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge
Port St. John
Sharpes
Cape Canaveral
Canaveral National Seashore
Kennedy Space Center
Port Canaveral
Canaveral Air Force Station
Merritt Island
INDIAN RIVER
CITRUS
BANANA RIVER
MOSQUITO LAGOON
Indian River Lagoon
Cocoa / ROCKLEDGE
SR520
A1A
Cocoa Beach
Patrick Air Force Base
SATELLITE BEACH
Indian Harbour Beach
— Causeway to Eau Gallie (Local 508)
INDIALANTIC BEACH
Spectrum Surf Shop
US192
Causeway to Melbourne
US1
I95
St. Johns River
Rural
Roadside Religion
New Development
St. Cloud
International Airport
Cheap Tickets
Gift / Pawn Shop Gauntlet
Kissimmee
Silver Spurs Rodeo
Orange World
International Food (Truck) Court
Machine Gun America
Epcot
MELBOURNE
Melbourne Beach
Palm Bay (Mainland)
Grant-Valkaria
SEBASTIAN RIVER STATE PARK
Micco
Roseland
Sebastian
(Back to the beach)
ORCHID ISLAND (Intracoastal Waterway)
(Indian River between Sebastian and Sebastian Inlet)
Sebastian Inlet
SURF
Kelly Slater
Wabasso (mainland)
VERO BEACH
FORT PIERCE
Hutchinson Island (beach)
Port St. Lucie (mainland)
Jensen Beach
Ocean Breeze
Jensen Beach Inlet
STUART (mainland)
Port Salerno
(Grumman)
HOBE SOUND
JUPITER ISLAND
Jonathan Dickinson State Park
Tequesta
Jupiter Inlet
Juno Beach
PALM BEACH GARDENS
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area (west of US1)
Grassy Waters Preserve (inland)
North Palm Beach
Riviera Beach
WEST PALM BEACH
PALM BEACH
Lake Worth
Lantana
MANALAPAN
Boynton Beach
Boynton Inlet
Delray Beach
BOCA RATON
Deerfield Beach
Lighthouse Point
Hillsboro Beach
POMPANO BEACH
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea
FORT LAUDERDALE
(inland)
Commercial Blvd. west to Sunrise
Plantation
Davie
Off I-95 Davie Blvd. east to
Fort Lauderdale
Hollywood
Golden Beach
(461 Ocean Blvd.)
Hallandale Beach
Aventura
North Miami Beach
Bal Harbour
SURFSIDE
North Miami (mainland)
Miami Shores (mainland)
Miami
MIAMI BEACH
(mainland)
CORAL GABLES (Venetian Pool)
Fairchild Gardens
Dale Chihuly
COCONUT GROVE (Biscayne Bay)
South Miami
Kendall
Palmetto Bay
Cutler Bay
NARANJA
Homestead
Florida City (LAST STOP)
Conquistadors
Peru
Incas
Mexico
Aztecs
Havana, Cuba
Atocha
Mel Fisher
The Keys
Key West
Lower Keys
Middle Keys
Upper Keys
CORAL REEF
Key Largo
Key Biscayne
West Palm Beach
THE GULF STREAM
Treasure Coast
BARRIER ISLANDS
Sand Dunes
Dune Vegetation
Sea Grape, Sea Grass, Sea Oats
vicious, thorny, spurs
Cactus
Wild Berries — thorny vines
Sandy Beach
Surf Fishing
Sebastian Inlet
Intracoastal Waterway
Banana River
Merritt Island
Indian River
CITRUS
Mosquito Lagoon
CAPE CANAVERAL
taking all the gold, silver, and precious stones they could find, steal, and carry. Under the guise of exploration, the Spanish left nothing but virus and disease in their wake. After three hundred years of European abuse, the Native Floridians were near extinction.
Paralleling Florida’s East Coast, a powerful ocean current (The Gulf Stream) turns north off the equator, and runs between Key West and St. Augustine. Most, after “exploring” Peru and Mexico, made port in Havana and Key West, before riding the Stream, 375 miles north to St. Augustine.
Since its founding, St. Augustine was the last port for most of Spain’s treasure-laden fleets, before they embarked on the longest, open-ocean leg of their journey.the long and perilous Atlantic crossing, after which the courageous explorers were hailed as heroes, who were paid handsomely by the Royal families who had financed their violent, wooden-boat drive-bys.
Fortuitously, St. Augustine proved to be the best place on Earth from which to launch a 17th Century Spanish Galleon into the Atlantic Ocean. The spot where the fast-moving Gulf Stream turns toward the east and runs into another strong current, flowing from the mouth of the St. Johns River. The same as Africa’s Nile, the source of the St. Johns is south (in the Everglades), and mostly shallow and slow, flows north, through the wetlands on the western edge of Florida’s East Coast. St. Augustine (Jacksonville) is the spot where the St. Johns River, Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, and The Gulfstream (in the Atlantic) converge, making it unusually well suited to spot where a clear, spring-fed river converges with the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. St. Augustine proved better than imagined, to be the best place on Earth from which to embark on such a dangerous and adventurous journey. Riding the St. Johns and Gulf Stream flows, and timing their departure with the outgoing tide, The Spanish Galleons, with their important passengers and priceless treasures,took advantage of the converging currents, and were launched into the Atlantic, toward the eastern horizon, and eventually, home.
Once underway, and out of land’s sight, navigation was better at night, when it was clear, and a ship’s captain could easily follow the stars, the light in the skyn it was clear, and with their important passengers and priceless treasureslaunch with the outgoing tide, and using the St. Johns and Gulf Stream currents, the Galleons, with their priceless treasure served as a powerful propulsion system, like a catapult on an aircraft carrier, or even more, like the launching of a rocket, sending it on its way to the Moon.
fast, off the equator, and running north, from Key West to St. Augustine. Off shore, a mighty ocean current (Gulf Stream) runs fast, along Florida’s East Coast, from the Keys (Key West), north to St. Augustine, Spain’s first settlement in the New World, and the last stop before treasure-laden, Spanish Galleons sailed east, across the Atlantic, on their long way home to Europe.
St. Augustine, being the place where the currents of the Gulf Stream and the St. Johns River converge, St. Augustine proved to be the best imaginable place on Earth from which to embark on such a dangerous and adventurous journey. The combined currents serve as a powerful propulsion system, like a catapult on an aircraft carrier, or even more, like the launching of a rocket, sending it on its way to the Moon.
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