Sprayed in insect repellent, we managed a swat-free photo!
A real live 'gator! We found out after this photo was taken that when they have their mouths open like this they are feeling threatened and could attack....ignorance is bliss though!
While driving down this road, we saw heaps of the big monsters - here are two of them.
Ben getting too close to an alligator....they were all along this pathway.
Schnappy schnappy! I can't believe we were only metres away from it when we walked past!!
Squeezing in a 'gator between us in a self-take :-)
Fi chasing a big, scary alligator.....look at it run!
St Augustine, on the north-east Florida coast. It was at the spot marked by the cross (or near enough!) that in 1565, the Spanish landed and founded the first European colony in the States (this was about 60 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock). Florida actually has quite an interesting history of being traded between the Spanish, Americans, and British multiple times, and was also a British stronghold during the War of Independence. It seceded from the Union in January 1861 but doesn't seem to bear the same Civil War scars as some of the other Southern states.
Castillo de San Marcus, St Augustine - this fort was finished in 1695 by the Spanish, and much of the structure was as it was back then. It was attacked many many times over hundreds of years but never fell to the attackers. The moat was a feature the United States added when they took over from the Spanish.
Castillo de San Marcos - some of the cannons are the originals.
While driving down this road, we saw heaps of the big monsters - here are two of them.
Ben getting too close to an alligator....they were all along this pathway.
Schnappy schnappy! I can't believe we were only metres away from it when we walked past!!
Squeezing in a 'gator between us in a self-take :-)
Fi chasing a big, scary alligator.....look at it run!
St Augustine, on the north-east Florida coast. It was at the spot marked by the cross (or near enough!) that in 1565, the Spanish landed and founded the first European colony in the States (this was about 60 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock). Florida actually has quite an interesting history of being traded between the Spanish, Americans, and British multiple times, and was also a British stronghold during the War of Independence. It seceded from the Union in January 1861 but doesn't seem to bear the same Civil War scars as some of the other Southern states.
Castillo de San Marcus, St Augustine - this fort was finished in 1695 by the Spanish, and much of the structure was as it was back then. It was attacked many many times over hundreds of years but never fell to the attackers. The moat was a feature the United States added when they took over from the Spanish.
Castillo de San Marcos - some of the cannons are the originals.
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