[momix5]

Are these at West Palm or Port Saint Lucie?

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WOW - I'm speechless. These photos are really phantastic. I've read (?) this thread now from the start and just want to fly with Cougar!

I'll post pics of "my" Florida soon. Which is: no high rises , lots of nature . But no emerald water . We traded that for a less crowded area - North East Florida!
(We've been all over the state and decided that a less touristy part of it would just suit us fine.)

Don't spread the word tho ...

[Cougar31]

Here are some pics of Destin.

[Cougar31]

some more of Destin.

[~peaches~]

Anna Maria Island

[CBB]

Oh, the Gulf side is so beautiful with the turqouise or emerald water. But we don't like crowds and so we fell in love with an area which is not touristy at all - the north east of Florida. We visit every year for four weeks over Christmas and New Year.

Let’s start with some impressions of charming Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach which are part of the Jacksonville Beaches:



off Hannah Park




for the dolphin lovers


a beach front house


pelicans at the Intracoastal off Beach Boulevard

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South of the Jacksonville Beaches is Ponte Vedra. This is the Boulevard with the PV Country Club to the right (ocean front homes to the left):



beach access at the Sawgrass Country Club


a typical winter weekday on the beach


for the mid-century lovers – our favorite beach house, the Williamson Residence by famous Jacksonville architect William Morgan, built in 1963:


an extravagant starfish

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Some impressions of the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, our vacation destination since many years:





view from a house we once rented


had some nice guests every night sitting outside on the door frame (we tiptoed whenever we came home late)


rear view of the townhouse we rented for the past three years


view from this townhouse at dawn


in the afternoon

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South of Ponte Vedra Beach is the beautiful Guana River State Park, part of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve.







and no – this is not South Carolina Lowcountry


Guana Lake near the entrance


Tolomato River “beach” towards the back of the Park




the Tolomato River is part of the Intracoastal Waterway






There are some beach access points across from the Guana River State Park








and a view inland across the State Park

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Now we’re a little bit further to the south, in St. Augustine. A lot of photos of typical touristy stuff have already been posted earlier in this thread.



the famous Bridge of Lions during construction last January - the lower level just starts to lift to let some sail boats pass


the city at sunset, seen from the southern most point of Vilano Beach