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WORTH A TRIP
PALATKA
In its heyday, the village of Palatka (pronounced puhl-at-kuh), almost midway between St
Augustine and Gainesville, was the furthest south you could travel by steamship, and
boasted more than 7000 hotel rooms for wealthy snowbirds. Today, visitors are trickling
back to this sweet, sleepy-verging-on-comatose town for fishing, Memorial weekend's
blue-crab festival , and simply to get away from the coastal crowds.
Spend a pleasant afternoon exploring the Bronson-Mulholland House (
904-329-0140; www.bronsonmulhollandhouse.com ; 100 Madison St; 11am-4pm Thu & Fri, from
9am Sat & Sun, 8am-noon Mon), an 1854 historic mansion turned house museum, or cross-
ing the swinging suspension footbridge through Ravine Gardens State Park (
386-329-3721; www.floridastateparks.org/ravinegardens ; 1600 Twigg St; per car $5; 8am-sunset).
If you're feeling peckish, pull into Angel's Dining Car ( 386-325-3927; 209 Reid St; mains
$2.50-8; 6am-8pm Sun-Thu, to midnight Fri), Florida's oldest diner, serving cheeseburgers
and Pusalow (an only-in-Palatka drink of chocolate milk with vanilla syrup and crushed
ice) directly to patrons' cars since 1932.
Drinking & Entertainment
Ice Plant BAR
( GOOGLE MAP ; 904-829-6553; www.iceplantbar.com ; 110 Riberia St; 5pm-2am)
This super-cool bar in a former ice factory oozes style. Exposed concrete, raw brickwork
and soaring windows are the backdrop upon which to imbibe some of Florida's finest
cocktails. Small plates, bar snacks and mains also pack a punch. See and be seen.
Kookaburra CAFE
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
904-209-9391; www.kookaburrashop.com ; 24 Cathedral Pl;
7:30am-8pm)
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