{"id":1528,"date":"2015-09-05T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:49:16","slug":"day-71-the-florida-atlantic-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Day 71: The Florida Atlantic Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went back to Jacksonville Beach on our way out of town as it was gloriously sunny day, which was great because it was Chris&#8217;s half birthday. We don&#8217;t normally celebrate that sort of thing, but given we spent our last actual birthdays painting the flat, we had sort of intended to do something nice for the half birthdays. Jacksonville on a sunny day definitely fit the bill. The neighborhoods looked quite nice, as did the beach:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-10.53.30-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-10.53.30-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 10.53.30-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-10.53.30-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-10.53.30-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.02.23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.02.23-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 11.02.23\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.02.23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.02.23-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.05.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.05.22-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 11.05.22\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.05.22-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.05.22-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.04.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.04.58-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 11.04.58\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.04.58-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-11.04.58-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We headed down the coast on the coast road. The weather continued being gloriously beautiful and it was one of the best drives of the trip. We managed to go to several beaches and paddle in the ocean multiple times.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1533\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.00.13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-image-1533 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.00.13-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.00.13\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.00.13-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.00.13-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ponce de Leon, the Spaniard who first came to Florida<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1534\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.04.10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1534\" class=\"wp-image-1534 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.04.10-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.04.10-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.04.10-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.04.10-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ponte Vedra North Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1536\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.07.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-image-1536 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.07.11-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.07.11\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.07.11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.07.11-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiders &#8211; big, but not hugely bigger than in the rest of the South<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.05.37.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.05.37-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.05.37\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.05.37-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.05.37-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stopped into Saint Augustine, a historic city south of Jacksonville. We probably wouldn&#8217;t live there as it was all about tourism, but it was very lovely too and had the biggest cross either of us had ever seen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.59.42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.59.42-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.59.42\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.59.42-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.59.42-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.54.52-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.54.52-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 12.54.52-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.54.52-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-12.54.52-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wildlife has gotten increasingly exotic as we&#8217;ve driven south:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.13.30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.13.30-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 13.13.30\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.13.30-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.13.30-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also have what is basically an American castle, built by the Spanish just before the British took over Florida:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1550\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.31.33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1550\" class=\"wp-image-1550 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.31.33-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 13.31.33\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.31.33-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.31.33-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castillo de San Marcos<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1551\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.59.34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1551\" class=\"wp-image-1551 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.59.34-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 13.59.34\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.59.34-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.59.34-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.59.34.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach 3: Saint Augustine Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.57.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.57.29-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 13.57.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.57.29-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-13.57.29-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We carried on the road and the houses were just lovely:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.17.01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.17.01-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 15.17.01\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.17.01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.17.01-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of them were on stilts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 14.30.20-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-14.30.20-1.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ended the evening in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ormond_Beach,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Ormond Beach<\/a>, a suburb of Daytona Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.22.23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.22.23-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 15.22.23\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.22.23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-15.22.23-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got a very reasonable deal on an older Best Western Hotel right on the water. We were able to swim in the\u00a0ocean and then have a dip into their lovely 8 foot deep pool. We also got the best sunset of the trip so far from our balcony:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.55.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.55.29-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 19.55.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.55.29-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.55.29-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.56.54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.56.54-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 19.56.54\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.56.54-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-19.56.54-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-20.16.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-20.16.55-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-17 20.16.55\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-20.16.55-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-17-20.16.55-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do check out the video. It&#8217;s lovely:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_23712\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKCCrs8qtSM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went back to Jacksonville Beach on our way out of town as it was gloriously sunny day, which was great because it was Chris&#8217;s half birthday. We don&#8217;t normally celebrate that sort of thing, but given we spent our&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,158,160,163,161,162,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-florida","category-jacksonville","category-ormond-beach","category-ponte-vedra-north-beach","category-saint-augustine","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}