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Kick off the summer boating season with successful completion of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission course.  Born on or after January 1, 1988? You are required to complete a NASBLA-approved boater education course and have a Boater Education I.D. Card to operate a vessel powered by 10 horsepower or more.

Get certified in 3 easy steps.

1.     Study the online course. Animations and visual questions will help you learn.

2.     Pass the online exam.  Pay $29.95 only upon completion of the exam when you pass.

3.     Print your certificate.  Go boating right away!

GET CERTIFIED TODAY!

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Everyone wants to be outside sunbathing, swimming, playing on the beach / pool, or just barbequing in the backyard.  While summer means fun in the sun, make sure you are not getting too much of a good thing.  Avoid consequences of overexposure to the sun like sunburns, premature aging of the skin, wrinkling, and skin cancer, including melanoma, by practicing proper skin protection.


The hours between 10a.m. and 4p.m. daylight savings time and (9a.m. and 3p.m. standard time) are the most hazardous for ultraviolet exposure in the continental United States. The sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can damage your skin in as little as 15 minutes. The Center of Disease Control recommends that you follow these recommendations to help protect yourself and your family:

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Archeologist, Christian Davenport, uncovered some great facts about Jupiter’s beloved Pineapple House of Dubois Park.  Davenport, archeologist for Palm Beach County, discovered these findings when the county purchased the Dubois-Kindt property, located within Dubois Park, in 2010. It included the Pineapple House, which was built by Harry DuBois in the late 1800s to house his pineapple crop before shipping it out.

The DuBois family history started when Harry Dubois, who worked with Captain Carlin and the Jupiter Life Saving Station, married schoolteacher Susan Saunders and built her a home on top of the historical Indian mound in Dubois Park. Their son, John, was born in 1899 in the new house. John later married Bessie Wilson, who arrived in Jupiter with…

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Living in BallenIsles Country Club, Palm Beach Gardens, affords you all Palm Beach County has to offer. In addition to BallenIsles being a premiere country club with three championship golf courses and Grand Slam Tennis Center, it is nestled within 1,300 pristine acres. Amongst the luxury custom estate homes, courtyard homes and villas, one will find local wildlife.

In an effort to preserve, protect, foster and respect the wildlife within the community, members have taken an active part by creating the BallenIsles Wildlife Foundation.   The BallenIsles Wildlife Foundation is a 501© (3) nonprofit organization funded by donations and led by dedicated volunteer residents.

It is not unusual to see a neighborhood dog ever so gently entertaining baby ducklings. …

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Hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through November 30.  As we head into Hurricane Season 2014, Waterfront Properties and Club Communities encourage residents and businesses to be prepared in the event of hurricanes. The last nine years have been very kind to us, but one storm can remind us of the strength of Mother Nature.  

Preparedness is everyone’s responsibility. Every resident should have an evacuation plan and be able to secure their homes. Know if you live in an evacuation area.  Assess your risks and know your home's vulnerability to storm surge, flooding and wind. Understand National Weather Service forecast products and especially the meaning of NWS watches and warnings. 
 
Palm Beach County has a community notification system to alert its…

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Mark your calendars – All Aboard Florida is the scheduled topic for a meeting on May 27 at 7:00pm at the Tequesta Baptist Church, on Tequesta Drive.   The meeting is open to the public.  Officials have asked state leaders for help to reduce All Aboard Florida’s impact.  A meeting on this topic was discussed in Jupiter back in April.

Tequesta Mayor, Abby Brennan, Kim Delany, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council strategic development coordinator and Representative Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter are scheduled to be present for this meeting.  The panel is will discuss the privately funded $1.5 billion high-speed passenger-freight train scheduled to run in 2016 between Orlando and Miami.

All Aboard Florida wants to run 32 additional high-speed trains through our…

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Paddling enthusiasts, and others, in Jupiter will soon have a hi-tech way to navigate their waterway routes. The Jupiter Waterway Trail Mobile Guide is a downloadable app available for the iPhone that allows a user to find and map trails along Jupiter’s 39 miles of waterways, share favorite routes, find points of interest and learn about businesses offering ecotourism services.

The app is free to download, and offers ecotourism-focused businesses an opportunity to advertise within the app. Look for it in the App Store this summer and enjoy Jupiter’s beautiful Waterway Trail!

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Join this pre-Mother’s Day event designed to get all the women out on the beach and into the water. 

Make waves at the “Share the Stoke Foundation’s Ladies Yoga, Surf and SUP” event on Saturday, May 10 from 9:00am to 1p.m.  Join the group at Beach Walkway #60 on Jupiter Beach. 

Start your morning off with an all levels yoga class, followed by surf and stand up paddleboard (SUP) lessons.  All SUP equipment and instructors provided by Blueline Surf and Paddle in Jupiter Inlet Village.

Share the Stoke Foundation is a 501c3 charitable organization building positive surf communities. They are dedicated to donating surfboards to kids and teenagers in need in an effort to keep them off the street.  The organization states, “Around the world coastal…

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Get your paddles, canoes, kayaks and standup paddleboards ready for the 12th annual “Great Loxahatchee River Race" on Saturday, May 17th, at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, 16450 S.E. Federal Highway in Hobe Sound. The weather is perfect in our area with warm sunshine and gentle breezes why not try something different?

The Loxahatchee River offers paddling enthusiasts 8.5 miles of waterway that varies greatly.  The federally designated “wild and scenic” river offers miles of beaches, rivers, lagoons and waterways to explore.  The upper portion of the northwest fork flows through Jonathan Dickenson State Park. This portion of the fork in the river flows from Riverbend Park all the way to the Boy Scout Camp.
 
The name “Loxahatchee River” in the Seminole…

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The April 2014 issue of Jupiter Inlet Magazine polled the readers for a “2014 Best of the Area…Outdoors”

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     BEST PLACE TO TAKE A DATE for LIVE MUSIC:

            GUANABANA’S/SQUARE GROUPER TIKI BARS
     
    BEST PLACE TO HIKE:

            JONATHON DICKINSON STATE PARK

    BEST  BEACH:

               HOBE SOUND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (north end of Jupiter Island)

    BEST PADDLING:

                LOXAHATCHEE RIVER

    BEST SURF BREAK:

                JUNO PIER

    BEST SNORKELING:

             CARLIN PARK

    BEST BOATING:

        INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY
 
    BEST BIRD WATCHING:

            JONATHON DICKINSON STATE PARK
       
      BEST BIKE RIDE:

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