Category Archives: Florida

After a brief visit to Fort Matanzas and lunch, the Beavers forged our way through the traffic into the heart of downtown Saint Augustine. After being in more secluded areas, the crowds were a definite change of pace. (I’m personally not a fan.) The ranger at the castillo (Spanish for ‘castle’, but this structure isContinue reading “Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (NP026 – St. Augustine, FL)”

The Beavers enjoyed one last breakfast at the Kingsland Hampton Inn before packing up and heading down the road. After visiting Cumberland Island yesterday, our goal today was to explore the historical sites in Saint Augustine. Our first stop was Fort Matanzas National Monument. If you read about our visit to Fort Caroline, you’ll rememberContinue reading “Fort Matanzas National Monument (NP025 – St. Augustine, FL)”

After visiting a few sites in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, we visited two sites at Fort Caroline. Fort Caroline tells the story of the brief French settlement in the second half of the 1500s. As Europe raced to stake their claim in the New World, Spain and France butted heads a couple of times.Continue reading “Fort Caroline National Memorial (NP023 – Jacksonville, FL)”

Part 3 of our Florida/Georgia trip. For Part 2, click here. After a night of rest and a delicious, hot breakfast at the Hampton Inn in Kingsland, GA, we hopped down I-95 into Florida. It was both of our girls’ first time in Florida, and the first time in over a decade for either TiffanyContinue reading “Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve (NP022 – Jacksonville, FL)”