THINGS TO DO IN JUPITER – 5 WAYS TO GO BACK IN TIME

The DuBois’ had three sons and one daughter. All four children were born in the home. They fished, farmed, salvaged and also ran a fishing camp and later a restaurant on the DuBois property.

The kitchen has a refrigerator, sink and stove from the 1930s. Other furniture from that period, such as a dining room table, sewing machine, children’s toys and a “pie-safe” — a wooden bureau to store food — is on display. A donated quilt on the wall depicts the DuBois family tree and family photos.

Neil (1904-1990) ran the bee-keeping business — a very lucrative industry back then.

Your six-mile voyage on the Loxahatchee River to the Jupiter Inlet relives the weekly trip for supplies taken by the Legend of the Loxahatchee in the early 1930s.

You’ll nose through ribbon-like channels, some just six feet wide. Snook, deer, great blue herons and ‘gators are regular visitors.

“The adventure is from the source to the sea. Paddlers will go through the source – the Loxahatchee River – and view cypress swamps, alligators and otters. Then they will get to the sea – the Atlantic Ocean – after paddling through coastal estuaries with mangroves and manatees,” said Jupiter Outdoor Center owner Rick Clegg.

You’ll pass orchids, cypress knees and Spanish Moss as you paddle to and from the swamp-surrounded homestead Trapper set up when he was just 23. Skinning ‘gators, selling furs, trapping animals, running a zoo and growing citrus kept the blue-eyed New Jersey native busy for 35 years.

So did entertaining Hollywood celebrities and the local gentry from Jupiter Island and Palm Beach.