Miami, Florida, February 24-28, 2010
Posted: June 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Out Of TownMost of the time we were in South Beach; I was tagging along while Jen attended the South Beach Wine & Food Festival . . .
Collins Avenue in South Beach (Jen kept thinking of Vanilla Ice — “Yo so I continued to A1A Beachfront Avenue”):
A couple different walks around South Beach: Espanola Way, Michigan Avenue, Lincoln Road and Washington Avenue. I was on the hunt for stuff that looked like this because I had just seen some Miami Vice reruns:
You can see that Miami Vice look in Lummus Park and along Ocean Drive:
It wasn’t exactly beach weather, but we sat on the sand for a little bit and strolled on the Beach Walk.
We stayed at The Standard. The Miami Beach hotels mostly retain their old-school historic facades, which is cool to see:
Food . . . the venerable Joe’s Stone Crab, La Sandwicherie, Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant and Sra. Martinez (over in Miami’s Design District). All recommended.
Our last day in Miami we rented a car and made it out to the Everglades. The Anhinga Trail, located near the park’s entrance, is just awesome for gawking at alligators:
The birds in this picture are Anhingas (thus the trail’s name):
Vultures are an annoyance at Royal Palm where the Anhinga Trail is, so they are trying different methods of keeping them away, including the old head-on-a-stake trick:
We continued down to Flamingo to take a short boat tour of the interior waters, where we learned the role vultures play in the ecosystem, beyond just annoying visitors to the Everglades. This is an American Crocodile. They are different than alligators, and are found only in this part of the park:
This is the bottom of the continental United States:
