{"id":1469,"date":"2012-12-03T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:20:31","slug":"mangroves-and-dolphins-and-manatees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Mangroves and Dolphins and Manatees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who said it won’t feel like Christmas in the tropics?? \u00a0I believe I<\/em> said that….<\/p>\n

Well, we are really getting in the spirit down here, in spite of palm trees, mangroves, and dolphins! \u00a0The lights of St. Augustine are about as festive as you could see anywhere, and in New Smyrna we were treated to a Christmas parade of boats!<\/p>\n

During the afternoon and early evening quite a few boats passed us along the waterway on their way to the gathering spot for the parade.<\/p>\n

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I could see something sparkling bright blue long before we got close to this boat. \u00a0It was the flash of the mermaid’s sequined evening gown! \u00a0This boat wins the prize! \u00a0It was as much fun to see in daylight as it was to see in the parade after dark!<\/p>\n

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We think about 40 boats went by during the parade. \u00a0We gave high marks for the boat that looked like a sea monster (or perhaps Jules Vern’s “Nemo”), the pirate ship, and a sport fisherman decked out as an alligator.<\/p>\n

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Well, this will be one of those moments best left to memory! \u00a0We took a lot of boring videos with my phone, and a few still shots. \u00a0Have you ever tried to take photos of moving objects in the dark without a tri-pod? \u00a0Yeah….<\/p>\n

It was a lovely evening at anchor in New Smyrna. \u00a0We were joined by friends from Mystic who are also headed south for the first time, just like us! \u00a0Ted and Ginnie are aboard Firecracker<\/em> which is a sister boat to Pandora<\/em>. \u00a0What a treat to be traveling with friends from home! We combined efforts for dinner, had lots of wine, and enjoyed the parade! Traveling together from St. Augustine we saw our first mangroves, lots of dolphins, and Ted reported that he saw a manatee! \u00a0Now we are really on the look out!<\/p>\n

Along the way to Cocoa we traveled past Fort Matanza (I need to catch up on Henry Plummer’s visit 100 years ago), Daytona Beach, \u00a0and New Smryna which was originally settled by Greek immigrants. \u00a0Cocoa looks lovely, and I plan to find out shortly. \u00a0There is even a knitting shop!<\/p>\n

Going past Daytona<\/p>\n

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We had been warned that Florida is the waterway of bridges, and boy, it is so true! \u00a0In Daytona we went through five bridges in the space of one mile, and three of them were draw bridges that required waiting for opening. \u00a0To get to Cocoa we went through three more. \u00a0And supposedly this is nothing compared to what lies ahead!<\/p>\n

How nice to decorate a bridge for the sailors who pass under it!<\/p>\n

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Knit and Stitch <\/a>in Cocoa, Florida<\/p>\n

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Day 82, Dec. 1st: St. Augustine to New Smyrna
\nDay 83, Dec. 2nd: New Smyrna to Cocoa
\nDay 84, Dec. 3rd: Lay day in Cocoa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who said it won’t feel like Christmas in the tropics?? \u00a0I believe I said that…. Well, we are really getting in the spirit down here, in spite of palm trees, mangroves, and dolphins! \u00a0The lights of St. Augustine are about as festive as you could see anywhere, and in New Smyrna we were treated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}