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| Its not supposed to rain on vacation! |
On Tuesday, the weather didn't cooperate with our plans, so we decided to go to the Loggerhead Marine Life Center to see the sea turtles.
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| Loggerhead Marine Life Center |
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| My Little Lady |
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| Aye, sea turtles! |
(click to enlarge photos)
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| Annabella has prop wounds from being run over by a boat |
Admission to the Loggerhead Marine Life Center is free, but they do ask for a small donation. All of the sea turtles here are sick or injured. After being rehabilitated they are released back into the ocean. You can follow the sea turtles individual progress online at
http://www.marinelife.org/patients.
Later that afternoon, after completing a challenging holographic puzzle, we decided to have an early dinner at the Thirsty Turtle. Their wings were highly recommended, and did not disappoint. Get the hot wings. The sauce is amazing! Better yet, go between 2pm-7pm daily for $.50 wings during happy hour!
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| Happy Hour Daily from 2pm-7pm |
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| Fried Mushrooms |
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| These are the famous hot wings |
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| Yes, please take my picture while my mouth is full... |
On Wednesday the sun came out, and we were able to spend the day at the pool & beach.
We also made one of many trips to Publix, but not just any Publix, this store has a 2 story parking garage. They have a cart escalator. Yes, an escalator that locks your cart level, and takes it to the 2nd floor so your watermelon doesn't roll onto your bread. Genius!
After our trip to the grocery store we took a day trip to
City Place in West Palm Beach, FL
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| Dining, Movies, Nightlife & Shopping all in one place. |
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| I wonder if this is what Heaven is like? |
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| An interesting name for a bar... |
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| What you might get if you pick someone up from the above bar ;) |
Thursday, My Sister and I went snorkeling at the Blue Heron Bridge to check it out before diving it on Friday. The best time to dive/snorkel here is at high tide, and a divers down flag is required.
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| Entrance to Phil Foster Park @ Blue Heron Bridge |
I wrote up another blog post with a trip report & pictures of our
Blue Heron Bridge dive HERE. (Are you
following my blog?) This is the best shore dive site in Florida, and best of all... IT IS FREE to dive here!
Friday night everyone headed to Guanabanas for happy hour & dinner.
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| Magic Hat Elder Betty (Tap of the Month) |
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| Guanabanas is a tiki bar style restaurant & bar on the water |
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| More beer? Sure! A pint of Blue Moon. |
For dinner I had the blackened fish tacos made with snapper & grouper, and served with fresh tortillas, lettuce, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, cheese, black beans & rice, and tortilla chips. They were the best fish tacos I've ever eaten.
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| Tequesta Brewing Company |
Our next stop was the Tequesta Brewing Company. We sampled six different locally brewed beers. This place was packed on Friday night.
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| The Sampler |
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| I like to chew my beer... |
The six beers we sampled were: Terminally Ale, Gnarly Barley, Der Chancellor, Julios Weizen, Latest Batch, and Rye IPA. My favorite was the Rye IPA. At 7.1% ABV, this is defiantly a beer drinkers beer. If you're ever in the Jupiter, FL area, swing by Tequesta Brewing Co. and grab a pint (or growler) of Rye IPA.
That's all for now. I'm still going through pictures, and I will add more as I get to them. Thanks for reading. Please follow & comment.
Thanks for sharing the pics Robbie. They brought so many memories from the time we lived in Jupiter. My son worked as a volunteer at the Loggerhead Marine Life Center and was a heck of an experience for all of us since he always came back so excited about it. Thirsty Turtle in Juno Beach was our favorite family place on Sundays and if we had an excuse to go any other day we did go too.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy you all had a great time down there. I would love to travel there sometime maybe next summer. Ask your mom or maybe you know how they get those people from timeshare to call you. I hope when you are back at work you will stop by Manor Care 2nd floor 227 private room. I bet your daughters were happy to see you both. Give my love to all!
ReplyDeleteAmy