PARKS
Workers are setting up the forms for the new roundabout on Seaway Drive
at the western end of the park.
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unshaded, will be laid out on a green lawn. On the waterfront
facing the inlet, swings seating two adults each will join the
picnic tables that are already there. A solar-powered bicycle
repair station and bike rack will be at the end of the parking
lot nearest the fish cleaning station, which always attracts
hungry pelicans who in turn attract snapping photographers.
Binoculars placed on a post near the beginning of the long
South Jetty, built in 1926, will be available to anyone who
wants a closer look at the scenery.
A watch tower used during World War II to look out for
German submarines is gone, but its 25-square-foot concrete
base is still there today. The tower was removed years ago
and taken to the public works department, but it has deteriorated
to the point where it can’t be used, according to
Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency director Jon Ward. Some
remember the property, currently called the Rollins property,
as home to a casino built in the 1920s.
Tracy Telle, assistant city engineer, said there are plans to
build a new tower for observation of the beach and the inlet.
Eventually, there could even be a camera streaming live video
from the tower.
South Jetty Park has been a favorite of families, fishermen,
couples, swimmers and sunbathers for decades. Tourists
make their way out there and write home about it. Kite surfers
swing high on the swift wind when everyone else is hanging
onto their cameras, trying to snap pictures of the daredevils
of the sea. Fishermen catch their dinner and enough to
give their neighbors. The jetty walk is romantic and fun, and
out there it’s a different world.
Expanding the small park is not a new idea, but decades
of talk about it always died for one reason or another. But
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