We made way for a remarkable place, the Marineland Marina. Here you can learn about nature. There are no shops, no restaurants nearby. It is a good break from eating and shopping your way through the great loop. The beach was beautiful, part of it was covered with coquina, the only native rock found in Florida (first pic). Since we docked at the marina, there were great discounts for the kayak ecotour. The next pic shows Christine and me at a sandbar watching least terns, an endangered species. The tour guide pointed out that the area around marineland is the nexus where mangroves give way to salt marshes. During the tour, we could see how the mangroves thinned out and the grasses of the salt marsh started to take over. After the ecotour, we watched the dolphins at marineland for about an hour (next 2 pics). Then a long bike ride out to Fort Matanzas, a national monument (next pic). The pic shows Christine climbing through a hole in the top of the Fort. Check out this one room fort—when the Spanish controlled it, there were 7 soldiers living in this room. When the English controlled it, they had a many as fifty soldiers sharing this room!!
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