12/7 Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, FL

I have been here before and some of these photos are probably repeats, but it is a lovely place to spend a few days in Florida.  Some people consider it too cold here, but compared to anything north, it is wonderful.  And the best part is that it is a lot less crowded than most other parts of Florida.  

The small mostly Victorian town on the island is Fernandina Beach.  There are the usual touristy places, but lots of very nice shops and excellent restaurants of all sorts.  It is the kind of place I might like to live in.  I really should have taken more photos because there are some buildings in town with some lovely Victorian architecture.

This is the old train station, now the visitor's center, with a bronze of the man who built the first railroad that went east from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Gulf in Florida.

Road builders wisely built around this ancient live oak, and luckily, I had a rental car, not my motorhome, or it would have been very difficult to navigate down this street!

I spent a couple of hours in the town museum.  It used to be a jail, hence this room.

 Had a very nice lunch at a harbor-side restaurant.  I don't eat out very often, so this was a treat.

The area has a very large deep harbor and container ships come in to pick up paper from the two mills in town.