Today we climbed into the Jeep to do some driving on the sand. There is approximately 6 miles of beach in the Daytona Beach area where you are allowed to drive a car (of course you have to pay a fee). So we did. Nothing really exciting, but it is beautiful to watch the ocean coming in on one side and the condos on the other. The 6 miles of drivable beach are not connected so every-so-often we had to get off and drive on a road.
That road led us to The Ponce De Leon Inlet Light Station and Museum. Home of Florida's tallest lighthouse, it is 175 tall, has 203 steps and a spectacular view of Daytona Beach and the Atlantic Ocean. It was built in 1887 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998. It has all of its keepers' dwellings and outbuildings, each one filled with museum displays and information.
One building houses a collection of lighthouse lenses including two fully restored first order Fresnel lenses which are the largest lenses in a lighthouse.
We also found a dive shop and got our own face masks, snorkels, and fins. Now we have to find a local 72° spring to try them out and make sure each piece works before we head to Key West early next week.
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