We left Miami in the morning, and Vicki took pictures along the way of the nurseries. Vicki really liked being around all the nurseries, from fields of strawberries to groves of palms.
As we drove north, we deviated from the recommended travel route to avoid Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, the Florida turnpike and other potentially congested areas. When we made our first deviation, Google maps said the change in travel time was only seven minutes. This was really more an increase of forty minutes. Plus going along some roads that were barely paved.
Along this northerly journey we saw smoke coming from the fields. These were probably agricultural burns (sugar cane?), not uncontrolled wildfires.
V: we also saw a small plane diving over the field, didn’t see it actually spraying anything, maybe practicing or training but it was pretty cool to see it going over the same field at least a dozen times.
Manatee Hammock Campground (https://www.brevardfl.gov/ParksAndRecreation/Campgrounds/ManateeHammockPark) is a county campground on the Indian River and is a perfect spot to see launches from the Kennedy Space Center. Unfortunately there were no launches while we were there.
And the weather, while sunny, still had some haze that reduced the visibility of the Space Center buildings. The buildings are the bumps seen in the picture to the left.
The park was busy but comfortably quiet, with a loop around the park of about a mile. The pool was open but the water was not heated. So we (Vicki) did not take advantage of it. V: I think I was still chilled from the snorkel day at Biscayne.
We didn’t have too many adventures while here. The restaurant we went to last year, Shiloh’s, had closed down. So we went to Pier 220 instead for dinner. It was windy and cool that evening, so we ate inside. The only outside seating was by the bar next to the band, the seating overlooking the river was closed.
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