As Matt Soergel reports for the
Florida Times-Union, researchers from the University of North Florida (UNF) think they’ve finally found Sarabay, a local community cited by French and Spanish writers in records dating back to the 1560s. Its exact whereabouts had remained unknown until now.
According to a statement, the team discovered a range of Indigenous and European artifacts on Big Talbot Island, located off the coast of Jacksonville. Coupled with cartographic map evidence, the finds suggest that the site once housed a group of Mocama Native Americans.
“No doubt we have a 16th-century Mocama community,” dig leader Keith Ashley tells the
Image zoom St. Phillips Island, South Carolina
It s a bit like a fragile family heirloom passed down with care and love. What better way to describe South Carolina s remarkable St. Phillips Island? Jigsaw-puzzled among its marshy sea-isle sisters southeast of Beaufort and just northeast of Hilton Head, St. Phillips lay largely undisturbed other than by temporary Native American habitation, colonial oversight by the Spanish, and well-heeled sportsmen who came here for pig hunts until famed media mogul Ted Turner bought the island for $2.4 million in 1979.
St. Phillips encompasses nearly 4,682 acres of ancient landscape, all of it accessible only by boat, featuring narrow ridges of upland dunes flanking freshwater sloughs, with live oaks and magnolias on the high ground, palmettos and marsh grasses on the low. Here was a strand of pale and shifting sands cradling the boneyard remnants of trees, a salty Eden where dolphins leaped and vivid painted buntings perched
Visit Florida - with Your Travel Pod 500
Nothing could be more socially distant than being on your own private island. Surprisingly, you don’t have to be a rock star to vacation on one. East Sister Rock Island is a luxury home surrounded by its own coral reef for on-site snorkeling.
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By Kellilynn Hann
Before COVID-19, the best way to de-stress and recharge was to take a vacation. But what about now? How do we get out of the house and get away with minimal risk?
For many travelers, the solution is to form a travel pod a group of people from different households who quarantine, travel, and lodge together in ways that minimize exposure and ensure safety and a good time. Florida leads any list of desirable nature vacations.