Father's Day today found us in Miami again, this time touring the Lincoln Road Mall area. Here's one of the latest fashions for ladies who want to make "an impression" (although I'm not sure what the impression would be!)
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| Hmmm, let's see: a spiky purse on the left, spiky shoes at top and some other unkknown spiky accessories. Can't imagine who would wear them...or why. LOL |
After Lincoln Road we walked our feet off snapping pics of some of the old art deco buildings on Collins Avenue in the South Beach area. Art deco was an architectural style popular in the 1920's and 1930's and at that time was considered ultra modern, cool and exciting. Today it's considered retro and still cool. The city of Miami Beach at one point wanted to demolish many of them because they were just too old. A team of women got together and managed to have some 800 of the old buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, effectively protecting them from the wrecking ball. Architects were brought in to renovate them and voila ... now we have the permanent art deco district of Miami Beach.
Arriving back in Jupiter I went to the beach to do some surf fishing, but found the tide was approaching its highest, which mean two to four foot waves crashing to shore. I quickly found out what "rip tides" are about when I waded into the water to cast my line. Almost getting knocked down by the water rushing back to sea I got out of the water and turned the beach trip into a photo opp. Here's a little video that nicely shows the Jupiter Inlet where the ocean pours inland and creates hundreds of channels, canals and streams that criss-cross the entire Jupiter area.
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| Waves crashing over the Jupiter pier as high tide came in. |
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| Surfers were catching a few of those high tide waves this evening. |
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