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Exploring What Remains Of One Of Florida's Oldest Amusement Parks! New Smyrna Beach Trip Day 3! The Tim Tracker

Exploring What Remains Of One Of Florida's Oldest Amusement Parks! New Smyrna Beach Trip Day 3! The Tim Tracker

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Todays vlog is day 3 of our New Smyrna Beach vacation! We start with breakfast at the hotel, the Riverview provides a continental breakfast that is delivered right to your door each morning. We had breakfast out on the balcony and watched the boats go by, it was such a nice way to start the day. Then we head to the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens, which was about a 20 minute drive from the hotel. This botanical garden has the remnants of the old sugar mill. You can get a pretty good look at the old machinery and mill equipment. The gardens were also home to Bongoland back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which was one of Floridas oldest amusement parks. Bongoland had live animals, a miniature train that would tour you around the park and large dinosaur sculptures made of cement. The park closed in the 1952 but some of the dinosaurs remain to this day. We were able to get a closer look at 4 of them. Jackson had a lot of fun picking up every rock and we had a lot of fun checking out the gardens and seeing what remained of Bongoland. Then we head back for some lunch and dinner, both were delicious! We were also able to book Tim for a spa appointment which was an awesome surprise, so he takes you a long for that. We had a great day and
Date: 2022-02-09

Comments and reviews: 10


What a cool, beautiful, and interesting place Bongoland is! Yes, I remember the rest rooms at the beach when I was a kid being fairly cool compared to outside, they were all kept fairly dark, and made out of concrete block. Cool fact about camels being able to eat cactus, Tim. Never hard that, but will definitely remember it! Very cool idea about the painted rocks and the FB page. Oh my gosh - that gnome area is SO cute! Lunch looked REALLY good. SO cool the FD gave Jackson that hat and frisbee - community relations, at their finest! When I was a id, we used to visit the local FD once a year, during Fire Safety Week, and i always loved it. :) Glad the power came back on the spa looked VERY Zen and relaxing.
Socially distanced hugs to the 3 of you from New Jersey! Stay strong, stay positive, stay healthy!

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I am loving all of these little getaways and learning about all of the awesome places around Florida. Much appreciated. Oh my goodness my son LOVED collecting rocks. We literally had bags of rocks in the house haha. He'll still even at 17 years old pick up a rock that he thinks is a keeper. I think putting them in a jar is an adorable idea. Probably would be better than keeping them in bags like we did haha. Huge hugs and love to you guys xoxo
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We have multiple Little Free Libraries in our town, including two within a block of our house, and they are very popular. You can find directions to build one and a map of all the locations online. Whenever I can't find a book I want to read at the public library system, I buy the book, and after I read it, I put it in our neighbor's Little Free Library. The books I put in get borrowed almost immediately because they are basically brand new!
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TheTimTracker please please please come down to the orange county regional history center in downtown Orlando because there are so manyother big attractions that opened either before or after Bongoland that are still around today! I'm a Florida native (born and raised)
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You can name the jar of rocks, Jacksons adventure rocks! Also being firefighter, Jackson in his little fire helmet melted my heart. I love seeing kids excited about firefighters. I have some stickers from my department and would love to send him a few.
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I have our own free little library at my house. please feel free to take a book or two. You do not need to return them, but it is nice if you leave books when you can so that there are always plenty for guests to choose between. :)
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We have painted rocks in Germany as well. It is exactly as Tim said, post the location where you found the rock on the Facebook group. I Loved that idea and painted some rocks myself. It is so fun, when someone else finds your rock.
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My uncle still does his sugar cane the old school way in El Salvador its amazing to see the process! When they do it they have all the family, friends and neighbors to come out to help because its such a long hard process.
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My boy had a rock collection. We had a box right by the door and he would put his rocks in there before coming in the house. We would also paint the nice rocks with nail polish and put them in our garden
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I hope you guys had a great time in New Smyrna beach! That's my hometown so seeing my favorite YouTubers visit makes these videos 10 times better! Keep up the amazing content Tim and Jenn
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