Tuesday, March 13, 2007

This morning we headed over to the stadium to buy tickets for tomorrow’s Cardinals game. Put the address in the GPS and it worked like a charm. Got the tickets and then drove over to Jupiter Island. Quite an impressive place. Lots of beautiful estates. Plus the beach in some places has a lot of rocky outcroppings where at high tide the waves come crashing in and blow water up through the holes in the rocks—sometimes up to 50 feet. That area is now a preserve. After that we headed back to the park and took a boat tour of the Loxahatchee River. This is the first river in Florida to be designated a wild waterway. It’s just the same as it was hundreds of years ago. A beautiful cruise. And at the end of it we visited Trapper Nelson’s jungle camp. He lived there in this wild place for over 38 years. This guy was a Polish immigrant. He was 6’4”, had movie star good looks, was a trapper, a snake charmer and also charmed the ladies. He died very mysteriously—they found him in his camp shot in the chest with a shot gun. I’m reading a book about it now—“Life and Death on the Loxahatchee, The Story of Trapper Nelson”. Pretty interesting. After our cruise we drove to Hobe Sound and did the laundry and then went to dinner at Schooners.