10 Miles south. Melbourne Causeway.
Back streets, sidewalk, and bike path combined with a spare hour to spend on the beater can get you some pretty places when you live on a barrier island. This is the park at the Melbourne Causeway and Riverside. When there's more time, there's lots more beautiful parks on down the road! You can make it all the way to the Sebastian Inlet for a fifty mile out and back and not touch a wheel to the main road the whole way.
10 miles north. Boat Ramp at 1000 Islands
Sometimes you have to get creative with your hour. A ten mile route through back streets to the bike path on A1A, then more back streets in Cocoa Beach can provide some great views. Along A1A, those crazy giant planes (C5's or something?) do touch and goes over your head from the air force base on one side, and half a dozen beach parks attract surfers on the other. Must be waves today. Not a parking spot left at 2nd light. The beautiful Banana River plays the best supporting role along the west side of the island. No time for sight seeing stops this day, of course. Gotta get in the ride and get home. Decide on a turn around at the tiny little boat ramp park (on Ramp Road, go figure). Mangroves, manatees, pelicans, wild dolphins, birds that only birders know the names of... plenty to see. Unless you have Christmas shopping to do!
Home again the same day.
Back from the mall. Coming home over the bridge, it's 3pm, and I see a wall of fog a hundred feet high rising up over the beach in the distance. Then suddenly I am in it. Didn't see much of anything again til the next day.
Sometimes a good choice is just dumb luck. Ride first work later. Who knew?
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