On our way to Alabama we visited some sights north of Ormond Beach. Our first stop was Ft. Mantanzas. It was a fort created by the Spanish to protect the area from the French. It worked. It was also used to help protect the fort in St. Augustine. The National Monument is free here. There is a free ferry to take you across the intercoastal waterway over to the fort. It was very interesting.
A look out.
We stopped and ate at the South Beach Grill just south of St. Augustine. This is the view we had. Looks a lot like Hawaii too, doesn't it?
Then we visited the fort at St. Augustine.
This was the rock used to build the fort and it is found in various places in that area. It is compressed broken up sea shells and absorbed the shock of cannonballs.
Bob admiring some cannonballs displayed inside the fort.
A shrimp boat which is a common sight along the Atlantic coast.
Bob liked this view of this catamaran because it reminded of a boat that a friend of Uncle Chuck's was building in Culebra.
Good bye, Florida. Now on to Alabama.
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