• Big Talbot and Little Talbot Island: The Wild Side of the First Coast,Joey Larsen

    Big Talbot and Little Talbot Island: The Wild Side of the First Coast

    Where Do You Go When You Want the Beach With Nobody On It? Drive north on A1A past the last of the Jacksonville beach towns and something happens to the road. The commercial strip thins out. The palms give way to scrub oak and pine and long stretches of marsh going gold in the afternoon. You cross a

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  • Holiday Boat Parades on the First Coast,Joey Larsen

    Holiday Boat Parades on the First Coast

    A Christmas Tradition That Happens on the Water The first time you see it, you will not be prepared. It is early December, it is sixty-six degrees, and a forty-foot boat covered in about nine thousand lights is coming up the Intracoastal with somebody's speakers playing carols and a guy in a Santa h

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  • The Best Views in Northeast Florida Are on the Bridges,Joey Larsen

    The Best Views in Northeast Florida Are on the Bridges

    In a Flat Place, You Have to Go Up on Purpose If you moved here from anywhere with terrain, you will feel this in the first month. There is no overlook. No pull-off with a view of the valley. The whole region sits within a few feet of sea level and the horizon is right there at eye level all the tim

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