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After breakfast, the fog began to lift and we headed toward Pensacola Beach, just south of downtown Pensacola and Pensacola Naval Air Station. a major league naval aviation training base and home base for the Blue Angels, the Navy's aerial demonstration team. There is a lot to do around here but we decided to focus on the beach.
Pensacola Beach is actually on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island along the gulf coast. Part of the island is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and other parts have been developed into a typical Gulf Coast barrier island complex of high rise condos, vacation homes, restaurants and associated beach activity businesses.
Our first stop was Fort Pickens at the west end of the island in the national seashore section of the island. The fort is one of several civil war forts guarding the entrance to Pensacola Bay. It was briefly occupied by the Confederates when the war started but was abandoned in 1862 then occupied by Union forces until the end of the war. Like most barrier forts down here they were shut down in the early 1900's. The fort has been partially restored and it appears further restorations are ongoing. Also in the national seashore section of the island are excellent beaches all along both sides of the island, hiking/biking trails and a fairly large RV campground (electric and water hook ups).
After a tour of the fort, we had lunch at a busy beach bar/restaurant called Peg Leg Pete's.
After a great lunch we headed east on the island to another section of the national seashore to a nice beach for a short beach walk and getting our feet wet.
We then drove back to the RV for dinner. We will head east to Tallahassee, FL tomorrow then south along the coast to Crystal River, FL for two nights, before the final leg to Oldsmar, FL, our spring training destination.
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