Lunch today at Dolphins on the Merritt Island barge canal.
(Disclaimer: dolphin is not on the menu.)
The canal bisects Merritt Island. It was carved in the early 1950s to connect the Banana and Indian Rivers. Port Canaveral had just been completed; this was part of a vision to one day dig a canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf.
For those who have seen my Drawbridge of Fate photos, this is the drawbridge from below.
Speaking of Merritt Island, do you remember Mather's Inn and the long gone, beloved dragon that graced the southernmost tip of the Island? The drive on S. Tropical Trail between MI and Satellite Beach was fabulous.
@fugitive247 We moved here in 2009. I'm aware of Annie the Dragon but never saw her; when we moved here, I hear she was in pretty sad shape.