We did, indeed, eat Subway for dinner and lunch. We both agreed that we felt so much better when we ate far less and far healthier. I logged my calories for the first time in a few days, and I ate 1603 calories. That's about 130 over my allotment, but I'm sure I was THOUSANDS of calories over the last three days. lol It's an estimate anyway because I did eat the Key Lime pie for dessert last night, and I could only estimate how many calories that had in it.
We truly enjoyed Fort Clinch State Park. The fort has a wonderful visitor center and was lovingly restored in the early 1940s by the CCC. Now it has costumed volunteers giving wonderful demonstrations on the weekends. We didn't see that, but there is a movie in the Visitor Center showing all of that. There was one costumed Union soldier wandering around for conversation with guests, which was kind of fun. There was never a battle held there, but the history is fascinating.
Then we went to Subway for lunch and brought the dinner back to the hotel. Our plan was to lounge out on the beach all afternoon, but Mother Nature said NO! A big storm came rolling through within minutes of us getting to the hotel. In fact, we could see it starting from Subway. Instead, we read our books in the comfy chairs under a covered porch by the pool. When the storm was over, it was too late to go out on the beach because the hotel had already brought in all of its chairs and umbrellas, but we walked on the beach and picked up some pretty shells for awhile before spending the evening watching TV and eating our Subway dinner in the room.
Today we are heading south to Kingsley Plantation on the next island down and then following A1A the whole way down to St. Augustine where we will check into a 2 bedroom condo for the next four nights. Mark and I are truly enjoying our Florida vacation so far.
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| Mark is always interested in the old kitchens. |
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| View from up on the ramparts. The grid on the ground was the foundation for Officers Quarters that were never built. Officers lived in town. Not even half of the number of cannons planned for this fort ever arrived to be installed. There was never a battle here. |
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| View of the Atlantic Ocean from the rampart. The cannon is facing the deep water channel leading into the harbor of Fernandina. That was what the fort was supposed to protect. During the Civil War, the Union army held the fort to keep Confederates from running supplies in and out of FL and GA, but there was never an actual fight. |
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| After lunch, we walked out to the beach. This is how it looked facing the ocean. |
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| And THIS is how it looked when I turned around! Do you think he knows what's coming? |
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| He's reading The Boys in the Boat. |
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| I'm reading Princess Bride. |
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| And he also napped. lol |
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| On the beach after the storm. |
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| View from the hotel's fourth floor roof top deck. |
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