November 8th the four of us drove down to St. Augustine, the longest occupied European city in the continental United States (San Juan, Puerto Rico has been occupied longer). St. Augustine is about 50 miles south of Jacksonville. The weather was good.
We parked in front of the "Fountain of Youth" and took the trolley tour.
Ken watching the world from the trolley:
After the tour we visited the old town:
Here is Ken noticing Bill is taking pictures while Diane and Carolle are looking around:
Carolle and Diane watching a demonstration:
Lots of old stuff:
Then we paid our money and visited the Fountain of Youth. Here is the cross Ponce de Leon supposedly put in the ground to mark his claim:
Ken just keeps getting into the pictures:
We did try the "water", which had a lot of sulfur in it.
The grounds had birds, here is an Emu:
There were both white and multi-colored peafowl (peacocks and peahens) on the grounds and they had feed for sale. We bought some:
Carolle taking a picture of Diane feeding the peafowl:
Everyone was being looked at as a source of food:
