• Dune grass by the beach in Atlantic Beach, FL

    The Mayport Ferry and Jacksonville's Only-Here Ways to Get Around

    Have you taken the ferry yet? You come around the last bend of A1A in Mayport, past the shrimp boats tied up with their nets furled like folded wings, and the road just ends at the water. There is a ramp, a gate, a line of cars, and a man in a reflective vest waving you forward with the unhurried au

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  • Giraffe at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

    The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens: A Day Worth Making Time For

    When was the last time you went to the zoo without a kid in tow? It is a little after nine on a Tuesday and the air still has that damp, green smell the Northside holds onto until the sun burns it off. You walk in past the gardens near the entrance, and before you have gotten fifty yards a bird some

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  • Sailboat on the river in Jacksonville, FL

    Green Cove Springs and the Quiet River Towns of Clay County

    What happens when you turn off the highway and follow the river instead? The water at Spring Park smells faintly of sulfur, and once you stop noticing that, you start noticing everything else. The spring pushes up clear and steady, the way it has since long before anyone thought to build a town arou

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