Day Three St Augustine and our last day before we go home to Punta Gorda

Bridge of Lions opening for a boat .

Old people enjoying the fort at St. Augustine

 

We have visited the fort many times. Now with our senior pass we get to go free.

The view is very good.

Bridge of Lions from the fort.

 

Lizard on the fort.

Turret on the fort.

Lunch at Crave Truck. You need to look this up and try it.

We had a nice lunch and very reasonable.

Great to see someone making a living out of a trailer. Listed high on travel advisor for restaurants of the area.

There are many shrimp boats out of this port. Hope to enjoy some for supper.

We did see how Popeye met his end.

We took a tour of the St. Augustine Distillery.

This shows the stills.

They have just started and these barrels have bourbon in four years.

They also have a restaurant called the Ice House.

A wooden boat docked next to the Bridge of Lions.

In 1973 I took Becky's picture here and she looks better now.

The light house was glowing with the sun hitting the lens.

 

Another great supper. Fresh shrimp with green beans. very yummy.

Travel from Huntington Beach State Park SC to St. Augustine FL

We left Huntington Beach State Park close to Myrtle Beach at 5 AM. We always like to get the next campground before 1pm. We hit Charleston at 7AM and barely missed the rush hour.

When you travel RT. 1 just north of St. Augustine the railroad is next to the road. As we were going down the road a train passed us with an angry looking Frosty The Snowman. Is this a sign?

We were completely set up at 1:22 PM and headed toward one of our favorite restaurants, Conch House. You eat in a tiki hut on one pedestal, many over water.

You can see the St. Augustine lighthouse in the background.

We enjoyed local shrimp in a couple of dishes.

The Conch House has alligators in a pen.

Thought this boat's name said it all.

 

A storm was coming in as we were heading back to Tweety

Tweety's resting place for three nights at Anastasia State Park near St. Augustine

We have been coming to this campground for 43 years, in fact we came the Christmas after we were married in 1971.  That same year Tweety would have been brand new. Glad someone bought him and took good care of him for us.

Day Three at Huntington Beach State Park

The Huntington's made their money on railroads and built this home for winter use, they called it Atalaya. Mrs. Huntington was a sculpture and her work is displayed across the street at Brookgreen Gardens. They only charge $2 to get in if you are already in the state park. We toured it twice today. First just by ourselves and later with a guide. The guide was a retired history teacher and had done a lot of research. 

Mrs. Huntington designed all of the bars which protected the windows from hurricanes.

They had 32 servants living here with them.

Mr. Huntington designed the home, without any plans. He would just tell the builder to make a wall with 4 windows and 300 feet long.

Some flowers are blooming now

There are two courthyards. This one has many weddings.

The tower was to store water.

Many passages, kind of spooky

Looking into the court yard from inside.

We had a good time touring the home.

You can see the tower behind me, it had a 300 gallon water tank.

We drove to Georgetown after having 3 dozen oysters, yummy.

This is a resurant in Georgetown, next time maybe we will eat here.

They found this prop and anchor in the river at Georgetown.

The clock tower in the middle of the town. This would be a good place to film a scary movie

We even saw ghost.

We will be leaving early in the morning to drive to St. Augustine.

Day Two at Huntington Beach State Park

This was a good size alligator close to shore.

Honey, I shrunk the old people.

The Huntington's owned this property and must have put this quarter mile drive to a entertainment house.

Great Blue heron in the oyster beds at low tide.

This is the causeway over to the park.

These are beauty berries. We got some to smear on our bodies.  Hope it works.

Brookgreen is a botanical garden with hundreds of statues. Next time we come we will get a ticket to tour it. The ticket is good for 7 days. We have been told you can not see it in one day.

This is the entrance to Brookgreen Gardens.

 

 

A view that our neighbors have of Tweety at night.

Tweety looks like a Pumpkin.

We caught some Mahi Mahi at the grocery store and had a fantastic dinner.

Old guy about to dig in. What a good day.