Another great weekend to ride. Examples of why we live here, why I ride. Photos.

It was another great weekend to be outside and enjoy our weather. The are so many outstanding places to ride: alone, with friends or with family. Here are a few photos from the weekend rides. The pictures include by the water at Matheson Hammock Park with Kite Boarders enjoying the stiff breeze. 

Photo above: Sat. 2-27-21 - look carefully for the kite boarders.

Photo below: Sun. 2-28-21 - look carefully and say hello to my lil crocodile friend! (his head is visible just above my water bottle).

Enjoying the area outdoors, exercising, enjoying nature. This why I ride.

Support your local businesses. Support our local business association, the Palmetto Bay Business Association (PBBA)

Do you want a vibrant 'downtown' area where you can go shop, be entertained and dine? It doesn't simply "happen". It takes work and support. I ask that you support our local businesses. These businesses are where we shop, dine, workout or receive other services including various repairs.

The Palmetto Bay Business association is largely made up of local owners living in and around our Palmetto Bay community. I participate in this organization and have since it's inception.  See: http://www.pbbaonline.com/

The PBBA last met on Thursday, January 4, 2018.  The featured speaker was Beacon Council President & CEO Michael A Finney. 

PBay resident - and realtor - Hal Feldman currently serves as Chairman of the PBBA.  Hal succeeds Courtney Reeder, (another PBay resident and PBay business person) who remains on the PBBA Board as Immediate Past Chairwoman.  Courtney is the Operations Director for Golden Rule Seafood, a family owned & operated seafood market, If you haven't been there, you are missing some of the greatest seafood that can be found in South Florida.  Courtney been very instrumental in the creation of the newest family business, a family friendly, local seafood restaurant in Palmetto Bay.

Join.  Participate.

Palmetto Bay Farmer's Market is coming - Opening November 20th! Every Sunday from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM.

Finally, the long-awaited Farmer's Market has arrived - and this time to Coral Reef Park.  Please come on out, enjoy beautiful Coral Reef Park and support your local farmers, gardeners, artisans and others!

More information will be posted.  Please support Palmetto Bay's own open air "Farmer's Market" located at Coral Reef Park.

What’s happening at the Wings Over Miami Air Museum? Feb 2014 updates

CLICK HERE to read the February 2014 edition of its e-updates, "The Flight Log" - current updates include:

Did you make it to the Fly-by-Wire event?

Veterans Dinner brought out WWII veterans

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Ros Lehtinen Honors WASP Fran Sargent

Don't forget the Ford Tri-motor

February 13th-16th at LandMark Aviation

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Wings Over Miami Air Museum is located at the Kendall - Tamiami Executive Airport

14710 SW 128th St

Miami, FL 33196

(305) 233-5197

Museum Hours

Wednesday - Sunday

10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Wings Over Miami: model airplane event - Jan 25, 2014

There is another interesting event to consider and put on your calendar: Remember Model Planes Flying on Wire? Now scheduled for January 25, 2014.

Wings Over Miami is planning a model airplane event with modeling, flying, and those good old planes that flew on a wire! Please contact them if you are interested in helping with the models or the other activities during the event. Take a look at the video... It is a blurry, but it is something special...

Wings Over Miami on Saturday, January 25 is going to circle off the ramp, they will put some of there real planes on the grass as well as doing some control line flying and R/C model crafting. Should be something that takes some of us back to our youth and allows everyone else have fun!

I recall days of heading out with my father to the old Tamiami Airport grounds to fly the .049 Cox U-Control planes.  My longest lasting was a P-19 model. I still have some old engines, but none of my old planes remain - and who knows if any of the old glow plugs still work?  And who among us went for it when starting the engines, rejecting the "starter sticks"?

For current info, follow Wings Over Miami Air Museum on Facebook (CLICK HERE)

Look to the sky this weekend. Wings Over Miami Special events may be visible.

Check out "The Flight Log", which provides details concerning upcoming special events at the Wings Over Miami Air Museum (WOM).     

Taken from the post: November 2013, This Weekend, November 16 and 17, Special Aircraft Guests at the Museum: If you happen to be looking up this weekend and see a warbird formation, you will not be imagining it.  

Wings Over Miami will be hosting some guests this weekend out at the hangar. Multiple members of the RedStar Pilots Association, along with some of our planes and pilot friends, have been invited to do fly-bys both days of the NASCAR races.   

On Saturday, around noon, the planes will be arriving to the museum. The pilots will be briefed and will prepare for the fly-bys prior to leaving each day.  The schedule for the fly-bys have not been announced as yet, but the pilots expect to leave the airport about 30 minutes prior to the race start on both days.   

AND NOTE! Any readers like me who while growing up, were hoping for a Cox control-line airplane for Christmas?  I had several along with the (non-controlled) Dune Buggy as well as the on the wire dragster (nailing the wire in the street or merely letting it run amok). 
For those who remember and enjoyed, there is another interesting event to consider and put on your calendar: Remember Model Planes Flying on Wire? Saturday, January 18, 2014

Scroll down to the bottom the "The Flight Log" at end, to read the teaser.  Wings Over Miami is planning a model airplane event with modeling, flying, and those good old planes that flew on a wire!

Please contact them if you are interested in helping with the models or the other activities during the event. 

Wow - I'm feeling it. I recall days of heading out with my father to the old Tamiami Airport grounds to fly the .049 Cox U-Control planes.  My longest lasting was a P-19 model. Just thinking of a term I haven't heard in a while - "glow plugs." I still have some old engines, but none of my old planes remain.  And who among us went for it when starting the engines, rejecting the "starter sticks"?

Another local natural attraction opens: Bird watching takes flight at Biscayne National Park - Outdoors - MiamiHerald.com

Bird watching takes flight at Biscayne National Park - Outdoors - MiamiHerald.com
A new local outdoor activity kicks off which should be added to your family "To Do" list.  Read up in the Sunday Miami Herald: Bird watching takes flight at Biscayne National Park, which introduces the Biscayne Birding Trail — a free program created by the park and Tropical Audubon Society (TAS) to encourage South Florida residents and tourists to get outdoors and watch wildlife. Visitors may pick up a bird checklist at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center and mark down which species they see within the park boundaries on both land and water. A ranger will verify the bird count, and the birder will receive an achievement certificate on the spot. Full-color certificates will be awarded for lifetime achievement levels starting at 30 native park bird species and culminating with expert for identifying 120 species. There’s even a special category for junior birders who spot 10 or more different birds in the park. 

See a prior South Dade Update post relating to local birdwatching resources: Is Bird Watching the new hit? No need to travel far for Miami -Dade County Residents.

What are you waiting for?  Now is a great time to check out Biscayne National Park, especially as the weather begins to cool off.

Remember when the Eagle Landed? July 20, 1969 - Apollo 11 - Family event celebration at Wings Over Miami

I am sure that most of us are too young (or want to be) to remember the moonwalk. I do and I had the lunchbox to prove it!

Wings Over Miami Air Museum is giving Apollo a nod with it's weekend event.

This Saturday, July 20, out at the museum, they are doing some beginner rocket building, having solar viewing with Southern Cross and having the Nike Missile park rangers from Everglades National Park do a presentation.

The Nike Missile presentation runs about an hour and will include the history and current information about the Nike Base hidden inside the park boundaries.

Weather permitting, the Southern Cross volunteers with their solar telescopes will be out on the museum ramp for some safe solar viewing. Solar viewing is done with powerful telescopes which have filters to protect your eyes as you view the sun. To use the telescopes, the volunteers need sunshine and/or partly cloudy skies, so this weeks rain has got to go!

The museum has discounted the admission rates and warns that the rocket building class (8-12 year olds) will only hold 35 kids. There is a $2 materials fee (rocket kits run about $8 in the stores)  for the class on top of the $4 entry charge. The discounted entry is $7 for everyone over 12 years old. Veterans and active duty military are free.

Hope to see you there!

Memorial Day weekend event this Saturday - Wings Over Miami Festival & Car Show

Looking for a local fun-filled event to do with your family in keeping with Memorial Day Weekend?  Make plans to attend the Memorial Day weekend event this Saturday - Memorial Day Weekend Music Festival and Car Show

Wings Over Miami Memorial Day Festival

Saturday, May 25, 2013

11 am to 5 pm

The museum will be full of great action on Memorial Day weekend! There is a car show with 111 registered cars, a day of Bluegrass music, photo exhibit and planes in the air! Come and hear mini seminars on photography, learn South Florida history and meet the Tuskegee Airmen!  Enjoy the music from the South Florida Bluegrass Association for their second music festival! Bring a chair, your sunblock and hang-on to your hat for a fun filled day!

The Wings Over Miami warbirds will also be on display and weather permitting, there will be "fly-bys" of WW2 era planes in formation. The pilots will be available to interact with attendees and pose for photos. Flying starts around 11:30 a.m. and will be intermittent throughout the early afternoon.

Be sure to watch the  website (www.wingsovermiami.com) and Facebook page to look for event details.

If you go:

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Gates open 11 am –

Wings Over Miami Air Museum

Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport

14710 S. W. 128 Street

Miami, Florida 33196

Memorial Day weekend event this Saturday - Wings Over Miami's Wings, Strings & Other Classics

Looking for a local fun-filled event to do with your family in keeping with Memorial Day Weekend? Make plants to attend the Wings Over Miami  Memorial Day Weekend salute to our Veterans! Set aside your Saturday for a fun-filled day of Bluegrass music and warbirds 

The gates open at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 26, 2012. The music starts at 1:00 p.m. and runs into the evening. Bring your comfortable lawn chairs and your favorite veteran! Please view the Wings Over Miami Memorial Day Weekend salute web page for full information.

Tickets can be purchased at the door or online. Online tickets will be picked up the day of the event at Will Call. Veterans and current military with proper IDs are guests of the museum.

If you go:
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Gates open 11 am – Music starts at 1 pm till 9 pm
Wings Over Miami Air Museum
Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport
14710 S. W. 128 Street
Miami, Florida 33196

The Wings Over Miami warbirds will also be on display and weather permitting, there will be "fly-bys" of WW2 era planes in formation. The pilots will be available to interact with attendees and pose for photos. Flying starts around 11:30 a.m. and will be intermittent throughout the early afternoon.

Additionally, as part of the museum's living history project, veterans are urged to attend and have their portrait taken by the museum's photographers. All veterans are invited to bring a military-time photo and a piece of memorabilia if they would like to share it in their photo.

Support a local treasure – take the time to check out Wings Over Miami Air Museum

Out in Kendall there is a little museum called Wings Over Miami Air Museum. It is located on the west side of the Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport. 

Wings Over Miami is a unique little museum, unlike anything else around South Florida. The best part about the museum is that a great number of their exhibits are in flying condition. This museum brings history to life.

Visitors to the museum get an up-close look at planes that most people only see on television, in the movies or history books.

During special events and sometimes on the weekends, museum guests will see an exhibit roll out and taxi out as it prepares to take off. Almost always during the week there are mechanics working on planes, tweaking the engines and restoring the bodies to their former glory.

Wings Over Miami brings to the community and to our community’s tourists a friendly peek into years gone by. This museum of special aircraft is a true memorial to the glory days of military aviation and our veterans. Veterans are urged to contact the museum and become a part of the volunteer team who so wonderfully augment the museum’s story.

The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Sundays, noon to 5:00 p.m. For more information, go to www.wingsovermiami.com and www.facebook.com/wingsovermiami.