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    The Best Waterfront Restaurants in Jacksonville Beach and Ponte Vedra

    The Best Waterfront Restaurants in Jacksonville Beach and Ponte Vedra The sun is doing what it does in May on the First Coast -- dropping slow and warm toward the Intracoastal, turning the water from green to gold to something closer to copper. You're at a table outside, something cold in your hand,

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  • Spreading live oak in a park in St. Augustine, FL

    The Best Nature Trails in St. Johns County, Florida

    Where Does St. Johns County Take You When You Step Outside? There's a moment -- maybe you've had it before -- when you round a bend on a trail and the tree canopy parts just enough to show you a broad, still stretch of water below. A great blue heron lifts off without urgency. Spanish moss trails fr

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  • Seagull on the beach at Guana River near Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

    What Is the Guana Reserve and Why Locals Love It

    You Found the Place Most People Drive Right Past You almost miss the entrance the first time. It's a quiet pull-off on A1A, not far south of Ponte Vedra Beach -- no grand signage, no gift shop, no crowd. On a weekday morning you might be the only car in the lot. You step out, and the first thing you

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