The southbank riverwalk can be
seen in the foreground of the photo on the left while the Jacksonville
Landing, on the north bank of the river, can be identified by its
orange roof. The Landing is the design work of James Rouse, developer
of many projects including Qunicy Market in Boston, and projects similar
to the Landing, with the signature orange roof, in Baltimore, Miami, and
Norfolk. The St. Johns river will continue to play a role in Jacksonville's
future when the city hosts the Super Bowl in 2005, when crusie ships will
line the river serving - as floating hotels for football fans around the
world.
Jacksonville, and St. Augustine, America's
oldest City (1565) have miles of ocean beaches. Dayton Beach gets
the headlines, but as the St. Augustine advertisment says, "25 miles of
beaches - and the rest his history." Pictured below is Huguenot Park,
where the St. Johns river empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Come to
think of it, the photo below has two things you don't see that often: one
is a river coming to its end as it flows to the expanse of the ocean and
another is a true horizon, where only the curvature of the earth meets
the sky (no trees, no buildings - just water and sky).
