Since my last post we have been doing what we do here, eat out, visit, and partake in the parks activities. Today we went with Tom & Ann to Pensacola for lunch at McGuires Irish Pub for lunch. After lunch we went for an afternoons exploration of Pensacola Beach. We went to the Gulf Islands National Seashore and at the end checked our Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island. The fort is huge and covers many many acres with batteries tucked away out of sight. The only person killed by any of the forts guns over the years was one soldier watching a gun drill when the gun broke off its mount in 1922. The fort was built in 1834 to defend Pensacola Harbor and remained in use until 1947. In 1886 the Apache chief Geronimo was imprisoned here. In 2004 Hurricane Ivan pretty much decimated the area and you can see what it did to the trees. The fort was not damaged too much but the Ft Pickens road was not reopened until 2009.
