The sad part is that this seems to be a problem at Mayport every day and they even have a tower, but I'll hold off on that rant for some other time.
Sometimes it seems to me that the people they have in tower are more of a hindrance than a help. Flying yesterday we get this exchange, which seems to be typical:
Twr: XXX, you have traffic at your 2 o clock, distance 2 mi altitude 1000'.
XXX: Contact
Twr: YYY, you have traffic at your 12, distance 1.5mi altitude 500'
YYY: negative contact
Twr: Now at your 1.
YYY: contact
Twr: XXX, YYY has you in sight. Break, YYY, XXX has you in sight.
And during that time no one in either cockpit can talk because tower is running their mouth. I know YYY has me in sight. I heard him because we're both on tower freq. That's how you were able to talk to both of us without switching. You'd get a lot of the same radio clutter flying out of the heliport in Norfolk and it would tend to just cause gridlock. Tower would hold birds on deck or alternately clear aircraft to take off into oncoming traffic.
Now I know they have to make these calls and they have their rules, but sometimes it seems to make things worse.