Daytona Boardwalk Midway – Dark and Empty
I’d heard a while back that Wet ‘n Wild, the first major water-theme park in Central Florida (and at the time of its opening in 1977 the largest in the world), was closing this year, and honestly thought it had already done so. Last week when we were down there (more on that in other…
I stayed a night at the recently renovated Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach (I’m still deciding on whether I review that here or not, but for now suffice it to say I wasn’t impressed), and I was able to take a few shots of some neat old houses and buildings around the hotel, which I…
Daytona Beach just after Hurricane Matthew, October 13, 2016. This first group of pictures is on A1A and the Hilton Hotel. The hotel I was originally booked in for the night, The Plaza, didn’t are too well as you can see; in fact it looked a bit like The Tower of Terror in one picture. The…
When I was a kid we did a couple of weekend trips an hour or so north of DeLand to Silver Springs, FL, and at the time there were two major attractions to go to: Silver Springs itself, and Six Gun Territory.
Every fall the North Florida Fair roles into Tallahassee for roughly a week and a half of amazingly expensive fun, frolic and food. Captain Calamari and I went out to the fair grounds earlier in the week hoping to see some of the rides being put together, but found that the big ones were already…
Its been just over a year since Wild Waters in Silver Springs, FL was finally closed (a result of the State of Florida taking over it and it’s sister park, Silver Springs, as well as the aging infrastructure of the park itself and cost to maintain/upgrade). I’d been to this water park more than any…