![]() ![]() Dunes were pretty much washed over,” Henning said. Pictures on the Canaveral National Seashore Facebook page showed the extent of the damage. The National Park Service closed the beach in mid-November after the hurricanes damaged beach and dune resources. “They’re doing a great job of rebuilding it and we’re so happy that they’re doing it,” Kristie Gregory visiting Playalinda from Port St. The rest of the road and beach north of parking area 7 is closed to visitors. Visitors will be able to access Playalinda Beach parking areas and boardwalks at numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. – The National Park Service says it will reopen part of Playalinda Beach and Canaveral National Seashore Tuesday after spending two months trying to restore the beach following hurricanes Ian and Nicole. Nudity at the park is lawful as long as it is not accompanied by lewd or lascivious behavior, according to a flier available at ranger stations.Īmong the naturally occurring hazards at the park are the possibility of jellyfish and man-of-war stings, bees and other insects, sunburn, rough surf and strong ocean currents and thunderstorms.CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, Fla. The naturists usually congregate in the northern-most areas of Playalinda. Nudists are another group drawn to Playalinda and Apollo, to the occasional dismay of beachgoers who encounter the sans-suit crowd unexpectedly. ![]() There you have to worry about them running out in traffic, here you don’t,” said Brian Martin of Orlando, as he watched his 2-year-old son dig in the sand at Playalinda.įishing also is a popular activity at the beach, and fishermen can hope to return from a trip with scrappy bluefish, whiting, pompano and other sport fish. ”Daytona and other beaches nearby are just too crowded for young children. ”We’ve speculated about it in the past, and it seems the general theory is that because of the way the Cape (Canaveral) is jutting out, the tide and wind transverse one another in our area, creating the rougher surf,” said Bill DeHart, the park’s assistant superintendent. No one is certain exactly what causes it. The surf at Playalinda occasionally can be rougher than on other stretches of the state’s coastline. Cars can’t drive on the beach, and I like that,” said Amanda Bradford of Titusville. ”For us, it’s close by and it is a natural setting. Turtle Mound is a shell midden – a mound of animals bones and refuse such as shells deposited there by the Indians.īut the main draw of Playalinda, Apollo and the remote Klondike Beach sandwiched between the two is the Atlantic Ocean, a gem displayed in a natural setting. Some of those endangered or threatened species might be glimpsed during the drive to the beach or, if time allows, during a leisurely tour of six-mile-long Black Point Wildlife Drive, off State Road 402.Īt Apollo Beach, historic Turtle Mound provides some insight into the ways of life of the Timucuan people, nomadic Indians who once lived in the area. Its skies are the territory of such birds as the southern bald eagle and the peregrine falcon its waters the refuge of manatees. The wildlife refuge is home to 13 species of endangered or threatened species of wildlife. Rangers at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which manages areas of the park, take visitors on guided tours in early summer, watching by flashlight as the turtles lay their eggs in their sandy nests. Virtually within the shadow of ultra-modern rocket towers prehistoric animals carry out their renewal-of-life rituals.Ĭanaveral is the birthing place for hundreds of sea turtles, huge creatures that lumber ashore during the night, dig nests with their flippers and deposit eggs that hatch in the late summer and early fall. The seashore’s location makes for curious juxtapositions. ![]()
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