Pomenade the Waterfront on the New Seawall

Barbara tells me that I am an inexpensive date.  All one of us needs to say is " a cookie and a coffee " from  one of the many sources downtown and we are ready for a walk in the historic section of St. Augustine.  One of our favorite routes is the waterfront along the bay.  Historic homes and buildings to the west and the waterfront and boats on the east.  The views are great and many times we even hold hands.  This used to be necessary because the old seawall was narrow and the street was wide and we can both have clutz attacks.  This is changing, however, with the construction of a new seawall which is being constructed 12 feet further out into the water.  This newly constructed seawall will protect the historic old seawall along the bay that was originally started by the Spanish in 1696.  The section being fortified in the pictures is from the 1833 project  which was built by West Point Military Academy graduates.  The wall is also higher to protect the city from water intrusion during tropical storms.  The best thing for us and other pomenaders is the nice wide walking path between the old now interior wall and the new higher outer wall.  We may not have to hold hands to walk the wall, but then again.        

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Annual Boat Migration

This time of year one notices that the lift bridges like the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine are getting a lot of use.  Boat traffic increases in the fall as northern boaters come south to take advantage of our relatively warmer weather and sunshine.  Some owners have their boats transported south on semi trailers for large boats or trail small boats behind their cars or RV's.  The really large vessels, however, get to navigate the north/south boat highway that runs down the east coast of the United States.  The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway was conceived by Congress in 1826 as a way to assist commerce.  The idea was for a system of natural waterways and dug canals to be so connected that vessels could navigate without the hazards of the open sea.  Smaller non ocean going vessels could be used to haul freight from New York to the Gulf of Mexico.  Today around 3,000 miles of inland waterway exist allowing boats to travel from Boston, Massachusetts to Key West, Florida.   You can even cross the state of Florida at around Stewart on the east coast to Fort Myers on the west coast crossing Lake Okeechobee.   Railroads have taken a lot of the commercial traffic leaving the waterway for pleasure boaters.  As a guy who has spent his life around boats this migration is like a very enjoyable parade.

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