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Happy Birthday Nellie!
Equestrian Adventures with Country Carriages
Turtle Nesting Season begins May 1st through October 31st. The yellow markers and netting mean a sea turtle has deposited her eggs in the sand!
Beyond the city, you’ll find 42 miles of stunning, golden sand beaches and beautiful nature preserves. Climb to the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse for a panoramic view of the Castillo de San Marcos, the Matanzas River and the harbor where battles and blockades took place.
The best way to experience Florida’s outdoors is by canoe, kayak or bicycle. It’s never boring and you’ll get a healthy workout too. You don’t have to go far to see a different ecosystem in Florida, the scenery can change within a mile or two, so get moving and start exploring!
The former Hotel Ponce de Leon greeted guests in lavish Gilded Age splendor for eighty years until it entered a second life as Flagler College in 1967. The interior designer was Louis Comfort Tiffany, already known for developing lavish stained glass windows and lamps.
As a frequent visitor to St. Augustine, I am always looking for new ways to experience all that the historical city has to offer. The perspective of the city from the top of the St. Augustine lighthouse offered just that. Completed in 1874, the lighthouse stands 165 feet tall and offers a breathtaking view for those who are willing to climb the 219 steps to the observation deck located at the top of the lighthouse tower.
Visitors to the nation’s oldest city can experience St. Augustine’s finest hotel and state-of-the-art interactive pirate museum with the launch of the Rogues, Romance & Riches weekend package—authentic treasures and rum punch included. 
We’re dragging pirates, peg legs and all, from the Golden Age of Piracy into the Social Media Age with an exclusive discount on admission when visitors check-in at Pat Croce’s St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum with Foursquare.
For years now the St. Augustine Night of Lights Celebration has gone on and I have to say, it is absolutely breathtaking!
According to the legend, if you kiss your love under the tree, you will have everlasting romance.
The manatee, Florida’s State Marine Mammal, is very large and slow moving, weighing 1,000 pounds. Averaging 8 to14 feet in length, they are related to the elephant.
After you’ve soaked up the Old City’s ambiance, you won’t have to venture far for surfing, parasailing, jet skiing, sailing or windsurfing on Anastasia Island or Ponte Vedra. Hiking up 219 steps to the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse, the oldest navigational site in North America, is worth the view.
Rip Currents occur when the waves returning back out to sea find a gap in the sandbar. Since that gap will be a path of least resistance for moving water, a channel of swiftly moving water is created.
Why do we protect our dunes? Well, it’s obvious that sea oats, those tall fronds that wave in the slightest breeze, help prevent erosion when there is a severe storm. They have deep roots that have a stabilizing effect on the drifting mounds of soft sand that gradually slope from the uplands to the high tide line.
