Afternoon in old Florida: Bulow Creek and Ponce lighthouse

Spend an afternoon exploring old FL. Start at 2pm at Bulow Creek ruins: 3501 Old Kings Road, Flagler Beach FL 32136. Cost: $4.00 entrance fee or use your FL State Park pass for free admission. Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park in Flagler Beach and contains the ruins of an ante-bellum plantation and its sugar mill, built of coquina, of composed of shells. It was the largest plantation in East Florida. We will explore the park but due to heat not hike very far. Meet us in front of the old sugar mill ruins.

Next, we will hop in the car and head 45 minutes south to Ponce lighthouse. The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse began as the Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse with the purchase of ten acres of land on March 21, 1883. Anyone brave enough can climb to the top! Admission is $6.95

An optional add on is dinner at Norwood Restaurant. Norwood’s had its beginnings in New Smyrna Beach, not as a restaurant, but disguised as a Pan Am gas station and general store in 1929. In the ensuing years the site served as a mosquito control center, piggy bank factory, and then again a general store. Norwood's is famous for its large treehouse bar and restaurant. The treehouse structure was created to highlight the large oak tree on the property and to offer a distinctive setting for the restaurant.

Questions: Call/text Jim 703-795-1776 (new leader!)