St. Augustine Florida. Was named after the founder. Oh man, you've got to come to
St. Augustine. Oldest masonry fort. Pressed together for thousands of years.
St. George Street pedestrian mall.
We're getting ready to go on a little tour of the town today, where are we
Michelle? St. Augustine Florida.
it's the oldest town in the united states.
and welcome to St. Augustine!
St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro menéndez
de Avilés, Florida's first governor. he named the settlement San Agustin, as his
ships bearing settlers, troops and supplies from Spain had first sighted
land in Florida, eleven days earlier on August 28. The feast day of St. Augustine
The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years.
on your left is honoring a boy soldier...
the street coming up here was named after the founder
there's the Black Raven to your left. That sign at that house said Westcott!
Michelle just so happened to catch her family name on a bed-and-breakfast as we
were passing by, so we got off the trolley at the next stop and walked back
to check it out.
When they came here and they saw his picture on the website.
uh huh. And I found out that they told me
that he's buried at the Evergreen cemetery. but really so if you wanted to go see his gravesite
you absolutely could. hmm!
And I see your faces in the mirror and I hear ya now...
exactly!
so we opted to take the hop-on hop-off little trolley and it takes you around
the whole city area and you have all these stops that you go to -
so now we're in an area - it's stop number five. Saint George Street pedestrian mall.
we got to get going on we don't have much time today and we've found out we have a lot of
stops to do. So again, it's the St. George Street pedestrian mall area
stop number five.
(man talking on phone) I'm not wasting the money on that, so I got pair of shorts and boxers.
We picked a bad day to come here cuz. It's very cold. It's that pretty chilly. We've been
getting on and off of the hop-on hop-off little trolley, the last trolley picks us
up at 4:30... I don't know, is that a Sunday thing? Yeah I'm not sure. And one lady said it's
normally 5:30 so it must just be a Sunday thing. Oh man, you've got to come to St.
Augustine, it is so cool! We're gonna have to come back. Where we at now Michelle? It's the oldest masonry fort
in the United States and it was completed in 1695.
Tickets are $15, ages 15 and under is free. Whatcha reading hun? What the fort was made out of. This Coquina. Uh huh. Is a local limestone and is made of millions of seashells pressed together for thousands of years. Interesting!
We don't have time to go into the fort, so if you come you're gonna have to, maybe take a look at it.
Again, it cost $15 per person to go into the fort. We're definitely
gonna have to come back. Just the down...what's that downtown area where all the
shops were? It's like the pedestrian mall area. But it had a lot of really old houses too, like historical housing from the16th century I think.
It was really cool. yeah. Very much worthwhile going to it looks like you
could spend a whole day there. We kept saying, how long is this? (laugh)
if their still running, you yourself could take a sip of that glorious water. I will warn
you folks on that one. I don't know how I feel about being a hundred and five and my hair keeps changing colors.
and my hair keeps changing colors.
now we are at the Fountain of Youth Park. And its property was once home to the
ancient Timucuan Indians and had evidence of several early Spanish forts. All
these peacocks all over these trees...pooping. yeah, hopefully not our head.
Michelle says it looks like you're going into a hobbit house.
I feel tall. So there's peacocks up there, there's one right up there, there's a few
up in there.
there's one there, one back there and one on Michelle's head.
So with our hop-on hop-off tickets, we got a free ticket to complimentary
"complimentary" to the, umm museum here. we're gonna take a quick look at it but the
tickets cost us fifty six dollars just for, just for the... hop-on hop-off
So they are 28 bucks a piece, which were not worth it for us because, just because we didn't
get enough time today, we came too... late.
Well wouldn't you know it, we're heading home now,
days over... and the sun's coming out. I'd say it's time to call it a day. 🎶 Let's
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