Downtown Jacksonville from the St. Johns River

[heights unknown]

Great post. Jacksonville (downtown, both North and Southbanks) looks great! Great photos as well.

"HU"

[Overstreet]

The Ford plant usually has barges tied to it.

Just remember that the manatee zones are agressive. The speed limit between the Mainstreet and the mathews is 25mph in the channel. Between the Mathews and Reddie point is 25mph. They could write a lot of tickets there.  Without a manatee in sight.

The water in front of the Landing is slow minium wake all the way across. And Fuller Warren to Acosta is minimium wake. Which all makes it tough during a falling tide to go through the current side next to the landing.    Follow the signs posted. 

see page 4.
http://myfwc.com/docs/CommissionMeetings/2006/2006_Jun_Duval.pdf

[blizz01]

Does anyone know the status of the public boat dock proposed for the Riverside Arts Market? 

After many leaps and hurdles through city and environmental red tape, construction will begin in December.

Thank you,

Brandy Maddox

Operations Manager

Riverside Arts Market

[duvaldude08]

Me and some co-workers went to the charthouse yesterday. I had never been that far down riverplace blvd but they view of the river is beautiful. Jacksonville has so many hiddne secrets

[stjr]

That ol' FEC RR bridge is due for a paint job soon.  It's covered in surface rust. 

What was interesting was seeing them tear down the old Acosta Bridge (which was much closer to the RR Bridge than the replacement Acosta) without damaging the RR bridge.

And, from a previous post:

Building the current FEC St. Johns River Bridge in downtown Jax in 1925.

From: http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid={92C4B717-EAE0-42F5-9F0A-1A7C18D07125}

Bridge Span Being Put in Place

Original caption: A new 216 foot railway Bridge Span was rolled into place on the new Florida East Coast railway bridge across the Saint Johns River at Jacksonville, Florida, in four minutes time. The Span was erected on specially driven falsework, near the bridge site, when barges filled with water, were fulled beneath it. The Span weighs 1,300,000 pounds and is shown here being put in place.

IMAGE:
© Bettmann/CORBIS
DATE PHOTOGRAPHED
September 04, 1925
LOCATION
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
COLLECTION
Bettmann

[Coolyfett]

Impressive. Most Impressive.

Lakes been using his imagination with this little boat of his...I wonder if he knows any copter pilots....hmmmm

[ChriswUfGator]

That pic of the water in front of the stadium where's that view from? I guess the River. Never seen that view before. Great pics as usual. Thanks!!

A lot of people with boats sit there in the river on game day and have a floating cocktail party while watching the game on the trinitron, which you can see from the river. Can be a real fun time.