St. Augustine, FL

We made it to Florida.  The Sunshine State...WOW!!!

You can sure tell that you are in a tropical climate the landscape is lush and beautiful. We are still driving through these big old beautiful oak trees with spanish moss (an air plant) hanging from them. They sure are cool.

 
 



 

St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in Northeast Florida and the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States^.  It was pretty surprising going to the ocean/beaches here today, here you just drive on the beach pick your spot and park, right beside the ocean. The beach is your parking lot.

 

We also were surprised how hard the sand actually was. It was compressed down and it was smooth. Almost like a smooth paved road.

 

 

 

 

The weather has been very nice, around 82 degrees. It was a beautiful day so we spent a few hours enjoying riding our bicycles at the shore line beside the ocean. It was so much fun. We had a nice breeze from the ocean and really enjoyed the ride. The ocean water was warm. We stopped along the way to pick up sea shells that caught our attention.

 

We brought the tri-pod for the camera and sure had alot of fun setting up the auto-timer and posing for the camera.  We were laughing so hard.

 

We counted 10 fishing boats not far from the shoreline trolling for shrimp.