Matanzas Inlet

Unlike most rivers, the Matanzas doesn't flow in just one direction. It is a tidally influenced waterbody that connects two ocean inlets- one at the port city of St. Augustine, and the other fourteen miles south (as the crow flies) at Fort Matanzas National Monument.

There is a “beach” here where parents bring their kids to play in the little pools of warm tidal water by the shore.