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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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Realtor.com recently released its National Housing Trend Report for March 2014.  Data suggests year over year growth in inventory and days on the market.   These indicators are welcome signs for spring homebuyers.  These trends indicate that the real estate market is more balanced now than the 2013 housing market.

Last year the shortage of inventory led to bidding wars on property.  The additional burden created another barrier to new home ownership and elevating offer prices.

Housing prices are anticipated to rise this coming year but at a slower, steadier stride compared to past trends.  According to the Home Buying Institute, one of eight housing predictors, “Florida’s real estate market will move into the media spotlight…housing demand is rising across…

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Palm Beach County Commissioners gave approval this week for the old Burt Reynolds Ranch to become a development of 30 homes.  

The property located at 16133 Jupiter Farms Road in Jupiter has a long and interesting history.  It is rumored to have been a gangster hideout in the 1920’s.  Notorious gangster Al Capone is said to have built the original home on the property in 1923.  Capone mostly hung out in Miami, but he did not particularly like it there.  A news report places Capone in Palm Beach County in 1930.  At the time, West Jupiter and West Palatka were the moonshine capitals of the world. Capone also took the name of Al Brown and lived in a summer cottage in West Jupiter off Italian Farms Road (now Jupiter Farms Road, SR#3).  There are foundations of…

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Gardening is a favorite pastime for many people.  If your have a green thumb but unfortunately have no room to grow.  Grow your own organic fruits and vegetables in Jupiter’s first community garden.  The outdoor community garden will give you the opportunity get your hands dirty.  It contains 28 plots including a children’s garden and all organic – organic fertilizer and compost, organic seeds when available, organic pesticides!  Plots are only $35 a year.

The Abacoa Community Garden, which grows fruits and vegetables using organic and sustainable gardening principles, features a Sharing Garden, Individual Plots and a Children’s Garden. Everyone is welcome to join - residency in Abacoa/Jupiter is not required. The garden is nestled within the Abacoa…

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1. Jimmy Buffett comes to the Cruzan

Palm Beach resident Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band are sure to please the legions of Parrot heads Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach.  Buffett, whose Margaritaville state of mind was inspired by Key West, most likely include hits like “Margaritaville,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise”, “Fins”, “5 o’clock Somewhere”, and the new album entitled “Songs from St. Somewhere”.  Showtime is 7 p.m. Tickets start at $36. Please visit www.cruzanamphitheatre.net for tickets and information.

2. Register for Turtle Trot Run

The Town of Jupiter is inviting all runners to join the 24th Annual Turtle Trot 5K Run. The 3.1-mile run will take place at a new location – Ocean Cay Park, Jupiter along…

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Photo courtesy of LuxuryRealEstate.com.

Congratulations to our respected associates within the Luxury Real Estate network for handling the biggest single-family home sale in U.S. history!  An undisclosed buyer, through the “Conservation Institute, LLC”, purchased the $190 million (asking price) Cooper Beech Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Cooper Beech Farm first came to the market in May with an unprecedented asking price of $190 million.   Built in the late 1890's, Cooper Beech Farm became the most expensive home for sale in the United States. By September the staggering asking price was reduced to $140 million.

According to listing Realtor, David Ogilvy & Associates, “the home has been a landmark in Greenwich for generations. Originally built in 1896 by…

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More than a billion people around the world and 190 countries will celebrate Earth Day today. Earth Day aims to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth’s environment.  Some people celebrate the global observance around the time of the March Equinox, while others observe the occasion today.

The April 22 Earth Day was first organized in 1970 “to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution” by Senator Gaylord Nelson.  

Although Earth Day is not a public holiday with closed schools and businesses, it is a campaign to focus on creating sustainable and healthy environments worldwide. Today, more than half of the global population lives in cities. Over the…

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