Yet a top-to-bottom tour of the building last week, from the 13th-floor garret, whose existence beyond the reach of the elevators makes it unknown to most people, to the stately second-floor meeting room where major policy decisions are made, revealed a world at once far more mundane, compassionate and productive than the picture of mindless, malevolent bureaucracy purveyed by the mayor.
Tourist activities include golf (9-hole), lawn bowls, tennis, fishing (including deep-sea game fishing), yachting, windsurfing, kite surfing, kayaking, and boat trips (including glass-bottom tours of the lagoon).
Members also put out a collection of essays by members titled "Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Chords and an Attitude" (1994).
A bottom-up tour gives a sense of the possibilities.
A good way to wrap up a visit to Richmond is with a flat-bottom boat tour along the city's canals, an extensive system once used to ferry tobacco, wheat and passengers.
In the Keys, a day can begin with a morning spent spotting the Key deer — a species unique to the region — in Big Pine Key, continue with an afternoon of fishing off any of dozens of bridges and conclude with a glass-bottom boat tour that allows you to see life on a coral reef up close.
Fortunately, this unique 300-sq-mile park is easy to explore independently with a canoe or via a glass-bottom boat tour.
Funky bars, souvenir shops and glass-bottom boat tours share the historic area with Victorian architecture, literary venues and galleries.
However, Buccoo Reef – a complex ecosystem composed of 30 acres of coral reef that are perfect for peering into – is most easily reached by glass-bottom boat tours from Store Bay (or Pigeon Point).
Silver Springs and Wakulla Springs offer glass-bottom boat tours.
Head to Store Bay, a beach just minutes from the airport, for teal waters, homemade coconut ice cream and endless offers for glass-bottom boat tours to the Nylon Pool for warm, shallow water surrounded by coral reefs.
