DISTANT SHORES Biscayne Bay May Be Our Area’S Most Prominent Feature, but Just Try Getting Close to It by ROB JORDAN Photos by Silvia Ros
October 2008 Serving the communities along the Biscayne Corridor, including Arch Creek East, Bay Point, Bayside, Biscayne Park, Belle Meade, Buena Vista, Design District, Downtown, Edgewater, El Portal, Hibiscus Island, Keystone Point, Miami Shores, Morningside, North Bay Island, North Miami, Oakland Grove, Palm Grove, Palm Island, Sans Souci, Shorecrest, Star Island, Wynwood, and Venetian Islands www.BiscayneTimes.com Volume 6, Issue 8 DISTANT SHORES Biscayne Bay may be our area’s most prominent feature, but just try getting close to it BY ROB JORDAN Photos by Silvia Ros he only sound in the world, it Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater River State Park? Not just get to the swimming, loitering, and a host of other seems, is the rhythmic splashing of Paddling Trail, overseeing a segment of water, but get in it to cool off, swim, innocent activities. As a 2006 study by Tpaddle on sun-speckled water. Boat the statewide trail that stretches from launch a boat, or just float around. the Trust for Public Land put it: “...A traffic is light, the wind low on this week- John Pennekamp State Park to the north- The waterfront, after all, is synony- surprising number of South Florida resi- day morning. A silent current propels us ern end of Biscayne Bay. He had good- mous with Miami. It is one of the main dents rarely encounter the beautiful north as we paddle our brightly colored naturedly agreed to come on this some- reasons millions flock here for vacations waters that characterize our community.” kayaks along downtown Miami’s bayfront. what quixotic mission. and new lives.
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