A SEASON OF CELEBRATION
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
GIFT
guide BY SUSAN BURGESS
THINGS TO
BUY AND DO
MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN
350 U.S. 1, Vero Beach
794.0601
www.mckeegarden.org
Give a gift the entire family will enjoy with guest passes to
McKee Botanical Garden, a unique 18-acre tropical hammock
that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Spend a
day lled with relaxation and tranquility in the dense and diverse
botanical collection. It also oers children an opportunity to
explore nature while enjoying the Nature Connects: Art With Lego
Bricks exhibition, which is on display through May 7.
The gift and book shop oers a wide range of gift ideas
including jewelry, garden hats, bags, scarves and much more.
Guest passes are $12 adults, $11 seniors, and $8 children ages
3-12.
WEST BAY TRADING CO.
595 21st St., Vero Beach
794.3200
www.westbaytrading.net
For one of the most unusual gifts you can give this holiday
season, visit West Bay Trading Co. It oers a coin mounted in
sterling silver from recovered cargo found in the wreck of the
Spanish brigantine of war, El Cazador. The ship set sail from the
port of Vera Cruz, Mexico, for New Orleans, carrying 450,000
pesos of minted silver coins. The vessel and her crew were lost
in Jan. 11, 1784. It was accidently found in August 1993 by a
sherman in the Gulf of Mexico. Price for this coin mounted in
various ways starts at $285.
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Guest passes to McKee
Botanical Garden, which is
on the National Register of
Historic Places, are great gifts
for nature lovers.
A coin from the
sunken Spanish
brigantine of war
El Cazador makes a
beautiful and very
unusual necklace.
Coast businesses.
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