Edited: 06/05/2021 at 07:39 AM by dingpatch

Brevard is a super nice place to live. I've been here since 1979 when my dad got assigned to Patrick AFB. Glad I bought property and had the opportunity when it was affordable!

Had dinner at Mannie's over off Wickham Friday evening. Great place, but completely filled with NY/NJ Guidos. Complete with unbuttoned shirts and gold chains. Fuggedaboudit.

Seems like less traffic locally yesterday though, make the heat is sending some back north.

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It's going to get worse before it gets worse.

My great aunt was one of the 246 in Cocoa Beach.

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So long and thanks for all the fish.

Cole I heard sea turtles were on the menu way back. What she ever say on that?

Yep, turtles! Not to my liking but, when you're hungry and having a turtle cook out on the beach, , , , , ,!!

Little known turtle fact, , , , , Archie Carr initially got into turtles not to save them but, to figure out how to manage a sustainable harvest.

Also sea cows! At a certain fish market in Melbourne!

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

The other white meat!

We used to cook our manatee on what is now Tortoise Island.

Nothing about turtles, but she did say the water was gin clear and you could catch sea trout with a strip of white cloth on a hook.

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So long and thanks for all the fish.

You could see the bottom of the channel from the old Eau Gallie swing-bridge (1956).

The "smart", old boy, bridge shrimpers would make nets out of chicken wire; you had to have a way for the "little" ones to get out or you could not lift the net up.

Edited: 06/13/2021 at 05:31 AM by dingpatch

It really is a tragedy what has happened to the river.

Maybe it's too far gone?

I don't see much progress.

It's been clear without any rain, but that's about to end.

Some say it septic tanks, but I do find it strange that they don't seem to have any effect till the rains come.


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So long and thanks for all the fish.

Yeah, has nothing to do with the fertilizer run-off...