Well, it took some time but the weather finally became warm enough to step outside with only a fur parka and not freeze solid, dang it was COLD!!!!!
We didn’t do much because it was to cold to spend more than a few minutes outside, so not much to write about here. Most days we drove within the park and parked some place where we could see the water and we would venture out from time to time to take a couple of pictures.<\/p>\r\n
Fort Pickens was completed in 1834 and also is also where Geronimo was held back in the day and was kinda rebuilt sometime after the turn of the century, because newer shells could penetrate the bricks, so a portion was rebuilt\/reenforced with concrete and outfitted with newer guns.<\/p>\r\n
We spent a total of 9 nights at Fort Pickens.<\/p>\r\n
Across the bay is Naval Air Station, Pensacola, home of the Blue Angles, we may have seen them taking off once, but they never did any fly by’s like some of the reviews said.<\/p>\r\n
We watched someone land about a 5ft shark, thankfully they let it go. Someone said he fought it for about an hour, someone else said there are guides for shark fishing from shore, they use small remote controlled boats to take the bait outing drop it off much further than you could throw it.<\/p>\r\n\n\t\t