Day 136, Dec. 8. Palm Coast to Edgewater, FL

If you look closely, the upright on the left says, "Do not block
vehicle lane." Oddly enough, cars are allowed on this beach. 

Traveling on the east coast of Florida, we are given an opportunity to enjoy the Atlantic at its finest. Today was, yet again, a beautiful sunny day. Google wanted to route us on and off A1A today which made very little sense to us so we ignored her. We stayed on A1A (Scenic Coastal Byway) until Daytona Beach.

As we walked along it, we could understand allowing cars. The sand is hard packed for quite a ways from the shoreline. I am not sure if it is the long shallow slope of the shore or the size of the sand grains, but, unlike most beaches, it does have a perfect surface for driving a car on.

Daytona City can be seem from anywhere on the beach.

After a leisurely walk along the shore we forced ourselves to get back on the road.

Shortly before we arrived in Edgewater, the Halifax becomes a reserve filled with
Mangrove trees. This patch is fairly young. Fully mature trees would have much
 more of the trunks visible.

Again Google wanted us to cross the Halifax River onto mainland Florida, however we were enjoying the barrier island so much we continued our course until the Dunlawton Causeway (bridge to the rest of us). Once over we followed the river as far as we could, doing our best to avoid Route One, four lane divided highway.

 We continued to enjoy the scenery all the way into Edgewater. Tomorrow we leave A1A and head to Cocoa, the home of our friends Nancy and Jim who have generously offered the use of their home to us.