Article: Fill your plate with football festivities on Amelia Island.(Travel)

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The Boston Herald
Article date:
January 23, 2005
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Byline: Amy Abern (SPECIAL TO THE HERALD)

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - Nothing says Super Bowl like shrimp boats and hermit crabs. At least if you're on Amelia Island Super Bowl Weekend.

The good folks at the Amelia Island-Fernandina Beach-Yulee Chamber of Commerce have put together the Fernandina Super Shellfish Feast, a two-day festival Feb. 4 and 5, to include boatloads of seafood treats, hermit crab races and a shrimp boat parade.

The event is sanctioned by the Jacksonville Super Bowl Host Committee as an official Super Bowl event.

The island, with its historic areas and beaches, is a pretty nice place to spend time even when a national ...

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