Shore snorkeling in Jacksonville, FL

Isn't Wayne Seller's Store In the FLA area? Maybe close enough for you to
stop in to say HEY
"KurtG" wrote in message
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Pszemol wrote:
Any interesting places in Jacksonville, Florida?
Will be on a business trip in the area so ... :-)

Any places in the city itself worth seeing?
Something like a spectacular aquarium/fish stores? :-)

Not really. The visibility is fairly poor and you need to go 8-10 miles
off shore for any artificial reefs and those are usually in 60-80 feet
of water with visibility much less then 50 ft.

AquaZoo is my usual marine fish store. The one on Beach Blvd has a nice
selection, but they are also the ones that sold me an ritteri anemone
with 2-days of experience. However, I like to go in there and look at
their tanks.

No public aquarium. Also, watch yourself, there are some rough areas of
town where flying lead and innocent victims/bystanders seem to be the
norm, but anywhere on the beaches is good. The Jacksonville Landing
also has a nice river/downtown atmosphere. If you make it up to
Fernandina Beach, let me know. It's about 50 minutes from downtown Jax.

--Kurt

I'm in Central Florida.

Also I closed the store at the end of last January.
It's just too hard to run an honest store while
trying to compete with stores that are making 3
times the sales by telling the customers anything
and everything to make a sale.

It's getting that way in so many industries. Truth
in advertising just does not count for anything anymore.

And so many companies across all industries that
used to stand for quality, are no longer making
quality products.

I have changed the nature of my business to aquarium
consulting, and maintenance.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Peter Pan wrote on 5/3/2007 2:27 PM:
Isn't Wayne Seller's Store In the FLA area? Maybe close enough for you to
stop in to say HEY
"KurtG" wrote in message
.. .
Pszemol wrote:
Any interesting places in Jacksonville, Florida?
Will be on a business trip in the area so ... :-)

Any places in the city itself worth seeing?
Something like a spectacular aquarium/fish stores? :-)
Not really. The visibility is fairly poor and you need to go 8-10 miles
off shore for any artificial reefs and those are usually in 60-80 feet
of water with visibility much less then 50 ft.

AquaZoo is my usual marine fish store. The one on Beach Blvd has a nice
selection, but they are also the ones that sold me an ritteri anemone
with 2-days of experience. However, I like to go in there and look at
their tanks.

No public aquarium. Also, watch yourself, there are some rough areas of
town where flying lead and innocent victims/bystanders seem to be the
norm, but anywhere on the beaches is good. The Jacksonville Landing
also has a nice river/downtown atmosphere. If you make it up to
Fernandina Beach, let me know. It's about 50 minutes from downtown Jax.

--Kurt

Wayne Sallee wrote:
Also I closed the store at the end of last January.
It's just too hard to run an honest store while trying to compete with
stores that are making 3 times the sales by telling the customers
anything and everything to make a sale.

That's hard Wayne. Sorry about that.

It seems that the Orlando area has quite a few fraggers that setup
business on ebay. It seems like an interesting line of business.

It just seems that a LFS has to run on something besides volume.

I have changed the nature of my business to aquarium consulting, and
maintenance.

That could be interesting.

There's lots of high end housing in my area and I've wondered if there
would be a business in leasing and maintaining reef tanks. Everything
would need to be automated with daily reports via an internet connection
and a weekly maintenance trip. It could be interesting and I know of
businesses that do this in other areas.

I need to remodel my kitchen and I keep thinking of a giant reef cube in
the middle of my kitchen/living room. Maybe 6ft cubed. Hopefully,
sanity and budgets will prevail, but it never hurts to dream.

--Kurt