Canaveral National Seashore is 24 miles along a barrier island of Florida’s east coast.
The boardwalk up a rare Florida hill! Before Ponce de Leon showed up and wiped them out, the Timucuan people made shell mounds along the coast. This is one of the surviving mounds, and it’s huge considering it was made by people putting shells in a pile.
The view from the top. It’s hard to see the shells now, since the hill is all overgrown.
Canaveral National Seashore is the longest undeveloped section of Florida’s east coast.
There’s a rumor that you can camp on some of those islands, but you can only reach them by boat.
The boardwalk overlook at the top of the shell mound. (It’s called Turtle Mound.)
There used to be a town here called Eldora. It was big enough to have a post office and a school.
All that’s left now is the Moulton-Wells house, which was built in 1913. Its been restored and added to the national register of historic places.
The Christmas tree in the Apollo Beach visitor center.
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