It's sad how much greed has seeped into almost every aspect of our society. We have more regulations but the environment seems worse off because of it. It made me sad to hear how much Florida has changed. My parents lived in the Rockledge area for about eight years and loved it down there. My dad would go to the beach almost every week.
Rockledge is not far from me, I am in Sebastian. Florida is all about tourism not about saving the environment, it makes me sick. My grandparents moved here in the 1890s and I wonder what they would think of it now.
I know exactly where Sebastian is! What a small world. My parents lived in an older 55+ community with a bunch of former NASA employees. I feel like I got a good sense of what “old Florida” was like before Disney descended into there and everything changed from talking to them. I bet it was an amazing place to live back then.
Yes, it was a beautiful place to live. Did you ever go to Sebastian Inlet State Park, that is where I grew up before the State took it, my Dad started the campground on the south side, but he was only leasing the land from the county. I spent the first 15 years of my life there.
I think I've been near there, for sure. My wife came down there when my parents lived in Rockledge and stayed in a little beachside hotel. So did the State seize the land through imminent domain or did they pay a fair market price to the county? Many times in situations like that the owners get nothing or next to nothing. Very sad. Do you ever visit the park?
I believe they paid the county, I remember asking Dad why we had to move and he told me whatever he bid, the state would bid a dollar higher, that is why I think they bought it.
I live directly across the river from it. When my brother was alive and he came down he would camp there, it is nothing like it used to be, where our house was is now a parking lot.