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Quick February Trip to Miami Beach

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Pink cherry blossom trees and palm trees frame white buildings under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Quick February trip, Truckee to Miami Beach, and today became the long-walk version of South Beach — the neighborhood runs from about 23rd Street down to South Pointe, so I started high and worked south. First stretch was the shopping streets, where the trees outside the cafés are strung with pink blossoms and bulb lights, palms hanging over everything. Then over to Lummus Park: rows of coconut palms leaning in the wind, and the lifeguard towers spaced down the sand, the nearest one painted blue and yellow with people scattered on the beach around it.

The claim is more than 800 Art Deco buildings along here, the largest collection anywhere, and after enough blocks of Ocean Drive I believed it and stopped keeping track.

By evening I was at the bottom of the island, past the white cabanas at Nikki Beach to South Pointe, where the walkway looks across Government Cut at the whole Miami skyline and the port cranes. Miami Beach is a barrier island — Biscayne Bay on that side, the Atlantic at my back — so the sun went down over the bay instead of the ocean I'd walked beside all afternoon. Later a cruise ship slid along the horizon, every deck lit.

A wide sandy beach with palm trees, a few people, and a sky with pink clouds and contrails.A beach scene with a blue and yellow lifeguard stand, pink clouds, blue ocean, and people on the sand.Tall white and coral buildings rise above palm trees and a sandy beach area with a "Nikki Beach" sign.A sunset over a bay with a city skyline, two buildings, palm trees, and people walking along the shore.A boat on the ocean under a cloudy orange and yellow sky, with dark palm tree silhouettes at the bottom.A vibrant sunset over the ocean with a half-submerged sun, orange clouds, and dark palm trees in the foreground.A vibrant orange and yellow sunset over the ocean, with silhouetted palm trees, clouds, and a bird.Golden sunset over the ocean with sunbeams through clouds, two distant ships, and foreground palm tree silhouettes.

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