Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, an exquisite previous Spanish land award and estate, dazzles the faculties with memories. The rose nursery’s blossom, the stinky sulphur spring, the live oak overhang blocking the Florida sun: all of these things will linger after many of you have left. This park and its forest nurseries stretch across the barrier island, allowing visitors to observe manatees and dolphins in the Intracoastal Waterway or stroll along the strange rough shores of the Atlantic Ocean.