{"id":7234,"date":"2018-03-18T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2018-03-18T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:07:06","slug":"the-heights-of-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=7234","title":{"rendered":"The Heights of Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of two space launches we saw from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The other one, from a private company called Spacex<\/a>, was just after midnight. We set our alarm clock to watch it.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We visited the Explorer Tower. Billed as seven storeys of adventure.<\/p><\/div>\n

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View of Port Canaveral from the top.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another view.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cruise ships abound here.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clowning around on an old launch console at the Space and Missile Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We took our first helicopter ride. Jeez! It looks so small. No I am not wearing a fanny pack! They made us wear a flotation device in case we crash into the water.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jeez! The pilot looks so young.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The helicopter dashboard.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pre flight jitters?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Strapped in.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The flight was smoother than expected.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flying over our marina.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another view.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A huge cruise ship.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Notice the shoaling.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the note we left on our boat in case we died. P.S. We didn’t.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I want one!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Best coffee cup ever! SOCOBO 3\/16\/18<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TWzP-1SG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}