ELECTION DAY
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| QUEST AND LITTLE CON-QUEST AT THE DOCK |
For a day we thought might be a washout, today turned out to
be a gift filled with balmy temperatures and blue skies after the morning rain. We discovered a most wonderful Cuban
restaurant, La Herencia for breakfast and feasted on their famous Guajiro
before beginning our tour of St. Augustine on the trolley.
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DAN AND RICHARD READY FOR
BREAKFAST AT LA HERENCIA |
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| GUAJIRO |
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| AS SEEN ON PBS?? |
On our trolley tour we saw The Old Senator, a towering oak tree that is over 600 years old, Flagler College that was originally
built as a luxury hotel for the industrialist and railroad pioneer Henry
Morrison Flagler, the old Woolworth's
building where the 1963 sit-in took place, as well as the ancient Castillo de San Marcos.
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FLAGLER COLLEGE IS A PRIVATE, FOUR YEAR,
LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOL |
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| THE WOOLWORTH'S DOOR |
Castillo de San Marco,
the oldest masonry fort in the United States, was constructed by the
Spanish in 1672. The fort is constructed
of coquina, a type of rock that is
formed from shell fragments. This type
of stone was perfect for the old fort because its soft texture allowed the
cannon balls to sink into it rather than shatter the fort’s walls. British General Oglethorpe brought his troops
down to defeat the Spanish and take over the fort in June of 1740. After 27 days of bombing the soft coquina walls of Castillo de San Marcos and
27 nights where the Spaniards snuck out to repaint the damaged walls, the
baffled British resorted to blockading the Matanzas River and all roads leading
into fort in an effort to starve the people of St. Augustine. Soon Oglethorpe
was forced to retreat due to their own lack of supplies and low morale.
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| CASTILLO DE SAN MARCO |
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NOTICE REMNANTS OF THE WHITE PAINT,
WORN AND FADED OVER THE YEARS |
Let’s see, there was some afternoon sangria at Mi Casa Café, a little shopping on old
St. George Street, oohing-and-awing a the dock’s resident herons and dinner at
A1A. All in all, a very good day.
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MI CASA CAFE SERVED UP SOME
MIGHTY NICE SANGRIA |
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| JUST ONE OF OUR DOCK NEIGHBORS |
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