Last Of The Florida Coast

Travel Day

• Vero Beach, FL to Cape Canaveral, FL via SR-60, US 1, SR-A1A and SR 528
• Cape Canaveral,FL to Daytona Beach, FL via SR 528, I-95, US 1 and SR A1A
• Daytona Beach, FL to St. Augustine, FL via SR A1A, SR 40, US 1, I-95 and US 1
• St. Augustine, FL to Jacksonville, FL via US 1 and I-95 

We are still following the Florida coast. Right behind this lovely park is the Atlantic Ocean.

The only difference between the coastal drive here and the coastal drive further south in the Miami area is the size of the buildings. This area has smaller hotels and apartments, and even houses along the beach front, but they still block the public access.

Surfing is a big deal up in this area of the coast. This is one of the local surf shops in Vero Beach. It has a bunch of cool statues in front of it.

Further up the coast is Cape Canaveral, now a very busy cruise ship port.

The history of Cape Canaveral as a Space Center is not forgotten. We went to take a look.

We happily paid the $10 for parking, only to discover that admission to the KSC grounds was $50 for each of us. We decided that would be too much to spend for the hour we had allotted, so we took some photos in the public access area in front of the gates.

Space Shuttle. Need I say more?

We headed for Daytona Beach. Daytona is home to one of the most famous NASCAR racing events in the world. They are increasing the capacity of the stands here at the racing ring.

Which way do we go? Which way do we go?

We went to the beach, apparently the world's most famous beach. Daytona Beach. The place was a madhouse with people everywhere.

Katherine liked the look of this building.

From Daytona Beach we headed to St. Augustine, one of the oldest European settlements in the America's. Ponce De Leon started this town when he came to look for the Fountain of Youth.

There were some pretty funky old buildings in this area.

Plus a lot of relatively newer buildings made to look old. There's a lot of Colonial Spanish style here.

More of the Colonial Spanish style buildings.

This is the last look we got at the Florida coastline. After this, we headed inland on the I-95.