I own four floating weeks at Coconut Palms Beach Resort and I love it. I have been fortunate to have scheduled weeks during a full moon....
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I own four floating weeks at Coconut Palms
Beach Resort and I love it. I have been
fortunate to have scheduled weeks during a
full moon. The night sky in the New Smyrna
Beach area is relatively dark, as compared to
the Chicago area, and the moon's silvery path
across the dark ocean to the horizon with
bright stars overhead is a very romantic
experience. The broad, hard packed, white
sandy beaches are wonderful for strolling,
biking, automobile driving, swimming, surfing
and sun bathing.
I have also been fortunate to view, from my
ocean front balcony, a shuttle launch from
Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center 45
miles away. I figure that 15 seconds after lift
off, I was as close to the shuttle as it
rocketted into space as was the crowd at the
Cape. I saw the launch in February, 2001. It
was about 6:00pm, the weather was clear
and mild, the sun was below the horizon, but
it's rays illuminated the rising shuttle with it's
long firey tail and brilliant trailing exhaust
plume. Without binoculars, I could view the
shuttle as it appeared to arch out over the
Atlantic ocean and eventually separated from
it's boosters which plummetted back into the
ocean.
The New Smyrna Beach area is a quite, art
community with interesting galleries, antique
shops, good food, golf and shopping. It is
about 1 1/2 hours from Orlando/Kissimmee
(Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, etc.), it
is just north of the Cape and it's National
Seashore area, it is just south of Daytona
Beach (NASCAR Race Week, Bike Week, etc.)
and about 1 1/2 hours from St.Augustine. New
Symrna Beach is well located for Northeast
Florida fun....Joe
Tragesser