Daytona beach at night

I stayed a few nights at a motel at Daytona Beach.

I enjoyed walking at night down the beach. thanks to the excitement of being on a vacation, I kept staying up late and would wake up early each morning, excited to see a new day arrive. My schedule was very unstructured and for the most part not very deadline driven.

When others would ask me when are you returning to Michigan, I'd kind of pause and wonder how to answer them. I had no deadline date to return but there were some pressures to return.

One night, while walking on the beach back toward my motel I met a family of five. They were enjoying a walk near the water and had one flashlight. Thinking they might be able to use another person with a flashlight to spot washed up jellyfish, I walked closer and started talking with them. The father would chat and was at times shining his flashlight, looking for crabs which he would run out and catch. He'd see a crab and run out and grab it and put it in a kids bucket to show them a crab before releasing it.

When they had one crab I asked them if I could take a picture of it eith my stereo 3d camera. We used both flashlights for e bucket light effect .

Here's the crab, in his bucket holding cell as we were ready to question him. The crab had no answers, so we let him go.





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We chatted and talked for a while while walking down the beach. The next day I ran into the same family again, in the daylight. I took their picture with the 3d camera and emailed it to them. Half the fun of being on vacation is meeting others.

The next day I was looking for other photos with foreground and background imagery for the 3d camera.

Here is a photo of the beach from beneath the famous Daytona Beach pier.






Here is the red blue version of it.







Below is a photo of the entrance to Daytona Beach near the pier.






And for those of you with red blue 3d glasses.






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St Augustine scooters

They rent scooters in St Augustine here.












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Fort at St Augustine

Canons on display.







Canon and mortars on display.





The well designed approach defense. This fort was not taken although attacked twice by the British, when the Spanish held it.






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McDonalds, St Augustine fort.

McDonalds south of St Augustine.

















Ducks crossing the drive through.












I walked to St Augustine and took some photos of the Fort there.

Every hour they fire a Canon, an 8 pound canon. Very fun to watch and very loud.
















The crew gets ready to fire the canon.











Here I'm getting my picture taken with the crew. These are volunteers.





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St Augustine Lighthouse part 2

Close up of St Augustine lighthouse through the trees.






And the anaglyph version below


Rooftops in foreground.



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St Augustine Lighthouse

The St Augustine lighthouse was another fun tour to go on. My biggest mistake was taking it later in the afternoon and forgetting one of the batteries for my 3d camera. I didn't get as many 3d pictures as I would have liked to during my tour of this lighthouse, especially once I was up top, when the battery died.

Here is the lighthouse framed in trees as you can see, there is a spiders web between the two trees.










Another shot from virtually the same location.









They have a speaker system which is like a portable cell phone that has recordings for different labels on the tour. There's about 90 mi urea of commentary, maybe more so you can take a nice long tour and hear a lot more information taking the audio tour aid with you. I highly recommend this. The St Augustine lighthouse tour is more expensive than the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. It's 9.50 if I recall correctly and the Ponce Inlet admission cost is less, closer to 6 dollars. There is more information in the St Augustine tour due to the audio aids.

Below is an example of the lighthouse keepers garden.



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Here is a mirror closer to the lighthouse in a garden, a good thing for a self portrait and wide angle reflection photo showing the lighthouse.




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The stairwell is more scary in the St Augustine lighthouse because you can see through the stairs. There is a secret to the fear of climbing up and down in a lighthouse. I think in climbing up you should just focus on the side wall and not look down. The steps feel so steep and look so steep that I was afraid I'd have some fear walking down them. My fear would be falling. However a father with a family was going down with his small son and he said to his son there is a way to go down the steps, that is easy. You face the railing and walk down sideways with your back to the wall. Side stepping. This keeps the railing in front of you and of course you can look across at the wall also. But the main thing is you won't feel like you can trip and fall forward and down the steps, but rather if you fell forward it would be into a railing you are holding, so it's a much safer way to go down and feel safe.

I mentioned this to a woman who seemed afraid in going up and her friend and I kept her spirits up as she went up. She was getting afraid, and being afraid of heights in natural and something we have to work at in overcoming. We took it one level at a time and eventually the view was worth it of course.

When you are up top, it's very windy and you have to hold onto your hat, by tightening it up a lot before you go out and also keep track of anything loose. I was especially careful with my iPhone and narrow w3 3d camera by Fujix. I was careful to insure I would not lose my grip as I didn't want to drop anything.


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Here is a closer view of the lighthouse. This is setup for the red blue anaglyph glasses, not stereo cross eye method. I'm going to post more of these later.




Here is the cross eyed view.





The view from the lighthouse.









Here is a view from the local neighborhood of the lighthouse.










Across the street from the lighthouse that is across on highway a1a is a alligator park. You can even take a rip line ride over alligator areas if you want a thrill. I didn't visit the park but this is a giant alligator or model of one in a large army truck next to the game park. It looks like he's going to swallow the lighthouse from this angle.










Another view of the truck below. Check out the lighthouse reflection in the windshield.











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St Augustine Beach

Here's a sign near the splash park.






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A pier at St Augustine beach.



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there is a civil rights memorial sign and building that has some historical relevance in some kind of sit or swim in event that happened during the Civil Rights movement. There is also a bocci ball court nearby. There were a lot of Italians in this area.



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Another view of splash park sign.



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I also rented a Segway the day after taking these photos at St Augustine Beach. A photo or two will follow in a later post.



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