8 August Port Canaveral

Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, and is one of the busiest ports in the world with 2.8 million multi-day cruise passengers passing through during 2010 so many more 7 years on.  It is the home port of Disney Cruises and it is a deep water cargo port, with over 3 million tons of cargo each year which includes cement, petroleum and aggregate.  The port also exports fresh citrus and bulk frozen citrus juice stored in one of the largest freezer storehouses in the state.  Port Canaveral lies in the middle of Florida's 72 mile Space Coast where the main attraction is the Kennedy Space Centre.  The Centre is 34 miles long and roughly 6 miles wide, covering 219 sq miles.  The Vehicle Assembly Building is the fourth largest structure in the world by volume. Since December 1968 all launch operations have been conducted from Pads A and B at Launch Complex 39 and both are on the ocean 3 miles east of the Assembly building.  

Having told you all that, I didn't go to the Space Centre today, I handed  my ticket in last night in favour of a day out of the heat.  Instead I took a free shuttle to the Merritt Square Shopping Mall for a couple of hours!  Needless to say, I won't ever need to go there again but it did provide some nice airconditioning!  

George now back from the excursion and he said the Space Centre is much different from how it was 20 years ago but I'm still glad I passed!  

Have been to dinner and the show.  Dinner with a couple from Montreal, his family are originals from France but I had difficulty hearing the whole story.  He is a retired journalist and writer.  The show was good, an old bloke, Paul Edison, singing Frank Sinatra, Neil Dimond, Johnny Mathis etc.