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  • 5 days ago | floridarambler.com | Bonnie Gross

    Every time I go to Cap’s Place, the historic landmark where presidents and celebrities have dined over almost 100 years, I wonder how long Cap’s, the oldest operating restaurant in Broward County, can survive. In a region where houses from the 1950s are considered tear-downs and highrises are popping up on every corner, how does a rustic shack opened in 1928 that you can’t even reach by car stay in business?

  • 5 days ago | floridarambler.com | Bonnie Gross

    Palm Beach island is the exclusive winter home of billionaires and their poorer colleagues, the multi-millionaires. It is, of course, home to what President Trump calls the Winter White House, Mar-a-Lago. A dozen presidents ago, John F. Kennedy also had a Palm Beach island home. All this history means Palm Beach island is an interesting place to visit; all that money means it is also quite beautiful. According to the Palm Beach Daily News, it is home to more than 50 billionaires.

  • 1 week ago | floridarambler.com | Bonnie Gross

    It started small and spontaneous. More than 30 years ago, Punta Gorda attorney Michael Haymans and some friends decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by swimming the 1.5 mile distance across the Peace River. They weren’t athletes in training; they had heard stories about how in the 1940s, swimming across the river was a rite of passage for teens. They had a good time, they told their friends, and those friends told a few more friends.

  • 2 weeks ago | floridarambler.com | Bonnie Gross

    Some of the most spectacular untouched dunes in Florida and three miles of perfect white sand beach are preserved in Topsail Hill State Park in the Panhandle. The park offers 15 miles of hiking through the complete dune ecosystem, where you weave through 25-foot dunes, past rare freshwater coastal dune lakes and through pine forests and cypress swamps. It’s an unusual state park in several ways.

  • 2 weeks ago | floridarambler.com | Bonnie Gross

    Visitors are often surprised to learn that the Florida Keys have very few sandy beaches. The water, however, is great – clear and warm year around; full of fish and sea life for snorkelers. In recent years, Monroe County opened two new Florida Keys parks that make that water accessible in enticing old-fashioned swimming holes. Even better: Both are free and right along the Overseas Highway.

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