Glad you are enjoying it! It's wonderful in person.

@@SatelliteBeachLive I hope to embrace it one day

Yes, you are right about that. Lake Shepard deserves it's own video!

Nice. Did you get a good look at it?

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Hi Caren, I have not seen him around recently. He used to do his thing at the Squid Lips on Eau Gallie Blvd when my wife and I would eat dinner there on weekends, but I have not been there for quite some time now. I was thinking that he would do an interesting interview. Is he still around?

Hi @Hundert1. People do swim in this water in summer, but it's not especially clear like the Caribbean. There are no sharks, except babies, but there are occasional gators. Sometimes a dog gets eaten, but I have never heard of a problem with gators and people here. If you went camping, it it unlikely you would see a gator, since gators like fresh water, but it's possible. There are fewer venomous snakes than most of FL, but there are occasional water moccasins. I have never seen one. No large pythons! I have to plead ignorance of RV campgrounds, but I am sure Google could find you some! There are no water parks that I know of nearby, but of course, there are many in Orlando with all of the theme parks there. There are local tennis courts both private and public. The rain does not affect us much. The ground is sandy and porous so water drains quickly. Even after a hurricane, water does not stand in ditches for long. Happy to answer any other questions!

@SatelliteBeachLive LOL, no sharks "except babies."😅 Don't the babies grow up to become full-size predators, though? Thanks for your thorough and prompt response 👍I hear some friends of mine are now doing a paddling training camp around there. I think in, at or right, near Indian Harbour Beach. Not sure where they're staying, though. We use the super thin, long, tippy race type kayaks. The protected, flat, peaceful, wind free, wake free waterways are ideal for canoeists, kayakers, and crew rowing. It's especially possible to capsize with these type boats, and I'm scared to be grabbed by some kinda creatures 😅 We have relatives living in Naples Florida, but they're golfers. I also know a guy who has a fruit farm in Citra. I think that livestream you have is a fantastic idea. I only saw the one with the beautiful Christmas Music though. I thought you had several cameras covering all around the waterway areas? How do we watch those? Thanks again very much. 👍🌲

@@Hundert1 Just to clarify on sharks...the sharks, like the red fish, tarpon and other big fish only live in the canals and Intracoastal when they are young. When they get big, they go out into the Atlantic, so we don't worry about sharks in the canal system at all! Regarding livestreams, there are 3 up right now that you can see on the channel home page at the top. Here is the URL: kzbin.info One is the Relaxing Christmas Music and Scenes, one is the Eau Gallie River and the other is the primary stream which shows rotating cameras on the Grand Canal in Satellite Beach. I did have a weather livestream with cams up during the summer, but when the weather turns cold here, the weather gets pretty boring, so I took it down for now. I am always interested in observations from viewers, so any suggestions are welcomed!

@SatelliteBeachLive That's very interesting regarding the sharks & big fish. How do they get in there to begin with? Do their full-size parents swim in there just for giving birth, then immediately return to the big Atlantic? If so, there's a chance the big parent might wanna grab a nice meal. But I'm very glad to hear y'all feel totally safe from being attacked from any big fish in there. I remember one year a week or so before Christmas I drove to Bradenton FL to visit a tennis camp. I was the only one who went swimming in the pools. The locals couldn't believe it, even though the pools were heated. They said it's so cold. I'm told em y'all gotta be kidding me. I explained I'm from New York and compared to our winter it was warm and so comfortable, why not go swimming. Thanks again for your efforts. I'll check out your video link. Best

@@Hundert1 I have to plead ignorance of the mating patterns of the sharks and big fish. I do know that I have never heard of any sharks in either the canals or rivers, but there's probably a blurred line between where the rivers end and the Atlantic begins. I also know that there are small versions of those big fish that get caught by fishermen that live around here.

Yes, you can easily do that trip. Golf carts are a common sight, but it's not the standard of transportation (yet)!

Glad you enjoyed it kirstenlaird5060. If you don't have a boat, you could live for years around here and not realize how special the Grand Canal really is.

I really like living here!

It touched down about 1 mile away and it must have been only for a few seconds, but there is quite a bit more debris piled up now than when I did video.

Satellite Beach has a certain "small town America" charm that's hard to find along the Florida coast. It has not become heavily visited by tourists, so it has been able to maintain its personality.

​@@SatelliteBeachLive Even being tourist ourselves, we liked that it was not very touristy.

Agreed. Eerily coincidental and you could not hear anything unusual. My wife told me she read that the tornado did not sound like the traditional "freight train" sound that people talk about.

​@@SatelliteBeachLive Thankfully it did not do that much damage, but more importantly was that no one got hurt during this. I just drove through South Patrick Shores on that road that runs parallel with A1A (just West of it) today and saw no damage. But that was a main road sort of. I sincerely hope that this is a once in a lifetime event and not to be repeated. Love that area and would like to move there from Merritt Island. Again, thank you.

@@FLGurl I think you are talking about South Patrick Dr. My subdivision is off of South Patrick across from Shearwater, if you know where that is. It dead-ends in Pelican Beach Park.

Missed us by 1/2 a mile!