FORT PICKENS

saturday finds us going to fort pickens in gulf breeze, fl..another civil war fort so of course another stamp.. the fort was one that wasn't used very much as a matter of fact one time there was a fight and over 600 cannons were shot from both sides and nothing hit anything..most of them were too short... it is out on a island that really isn't an island but a sand bar with some of the most beautiful white sand you can imagine just like fresh fallen snow..the park has to have plows to push the sand off the road at times it blows across ..one other place we've been in white sands testing grounds where the sand was so white... the park is by way of penscola beach across a very long bridge not nearly as bad as the macinaw bridge thou..it is low and not so high in the air..now i will also say i would not want to cross the bridge in the middle of a hurricane nor would i want to be on the island...you can see water on both sides as you drive to the park..it appears they an get some horrible weather during one of these storms... we took a ride around the campground and saw several nesting great blue herons (gbh) as you can see..the campground looked ok but it probally is an older one as we both thought with some of today's rigs it would be mighty difficult getting into your spot..trees were also low and with ours we think the trees would be way to low for us to even get into... on to gulf shores soon...