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Article: Amelia Island plantation: flora and fauna, along with top-notch spa, tennis, and golf facilities, beckon travelers to this beach-rimmed outpost in northeastern Florida.(Resort Of The Month)
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- Travel America
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- March 1, 2004
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An endless vista of treetops greeted our eyes from the open-air hallway outside our room at the Inn at Amelia Island Plantation. We knew that a resort full of amenities--including three golf courses, a tennis complex, two retail areas, a spa, and 24 swimming pools--was hidden away somewhere on the property, but you wouldn't know it from the view. We round out later that more than 80 percent of the natural vegetation was preserved during the construction of this 1,350-acre resort. The result is a nature lover's paradise--an endless canopy of live oak, water oak, pine, magnolia, sabal palms, cedar, and cypress.
The view from our balcony was more what we expected--ocean and ...
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Article: Ten: Results from Amelia Island Championships
AAP Sports News (Australia);
April 6, 2006 ;
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......Sports News (Australia) 04-06-2006 Ten: Results from Amelia Island Championships AMELIA ISLAND, Florida, April 5 AP - Results today in the Bausch...a $US600,000 ($A834,500) WTA Tour event on clay at Amelia Island Plantation (seedings in parentheses): Singles: Second Round: ...
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