St. Augustine Municipal Marina in St. Augustine, FL
THE FIRST COAST
Day #291: From last night beautiful full moon know as the Pink Moon April 2019. I skunked Mike at cribbage. Up at 6:45 A.M. for coffee, grapefruit, maple cookies and coconut cookies. At 8:30 A.M. Mike worked on some navigation for New Jersey to New York. The plan today is to get to the grocery store, Fountain of Youth and shopping at a few of St. Augustine's shops. I heard a crackling noise on the boat which made me remember that Nancy from "TxAu" had posted about in her blog so I looked it up sure enough Nancy had heard the noise in St. Augustine. The noise sounds like milk being added to rice crispy cereal. It is shrimp, Alpheus Heterochaelis, comes from a bubble produced by the claw of the shrimp quickly closing movement. At 9:30 A.M. Mike and I headed to the Fountain of Youth as we were walking we were able to see parts of the St. Augustine Easter Parade. The two of us both enjoyed the Fountain of Youth exhibit. We then headed to the ACE Hardware where we were able to buy a toaster (the one that they had died a few weeks back). The two of then headed back to the boat to have lunch onboard. We decided to take a walk to look at some of the small stores on St. George Street. Mike was able to find a Tilly hat which he purchased. At 2:30 P.M. Mike and I took an Uber to Winn-Dixie to get a few groceries in preparation for departure on Monday morning. With Easter being Sunday the two of us decided that we should re-provision today. After groceries were put away we did an Easter FaceTime with my sister and Mom/Dad. It was then time for happy hour on the well deck of the "Parrot Bay". The two of us had dinner onboard the boat. We had been invited onboard "Chrysalis" for after dinner drinks.
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| April 2019 Full Pink Moon |
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| Easter Parade in St. Augustine a double headed parrot. |
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| Another cool float from the Easter Parade. |
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| Ripley's Believe It or Not Statue at the gate. |
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| Mike and I heading to the Fountain of Youth. |
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| The road that the Fountain of Youth is on is just beautiful oak trees line and form a canopy over the road. |
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| The row of trees the opposite direction with Spanish moss. |
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| Heading into the Fountain of Youth. |
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| 1513 Ponce de Leon Lands at this site. |
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| There are multiple peacocks that roam the grounds of the Fountain of Youth. |
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| The Fountain of Youth but Mike and I chose not to partake in the water. |
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| Exiting the Fountain of Youth. |
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Navigator's Planetarium there was a presentation of celestial navigation for the day that Ponce de Leon found this site.  |
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| Timucua Village of Seloy |
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| Found in one of the Timucua Huts. |
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| Owl Totem |
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| 1950 Ponce Memorial Statue |
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| Historic Weapons presentation. |
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| The massive steel cross as seen from the Founders' Riverwalk. |
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| Spanish workboat. |
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| Cannon firing. |
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| Mike watching the presentation at the Maritime Traditions Exhibit Boathouse. |
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| Blacksmith Exhibit |
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| Beautiful peacock. |
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| Built in 1891, the old jail actually held prisoners for 60 years. |
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| The old jail. |
1821-84. City records indicate that there are approximately 436 bodies located in the cemetery, many of which died in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of the early 1800's.
 Old City Gates the pillars that remain were the supports for the drawbridge that was the single entrance to the city. Besides the pillars, a wall of logs standing end-to-end surrounded the town. |
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| Part of the Art Gallery District. |
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| The Panama Hat Company Mike was able to buy a hat. |
