St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum & Greek Festival - St. Augustine, FL

October 14  

The Lighthouse is across the bridge on Anastasia Island. It turned out to be more than just climbing the lighthouse as it had several buildings with small museums which were interesting. They also had some short walking trails. We walked the short trails and toured all of the buildings before climbing the stairs in the lighthouse. 

 Beauty Bush

 ship museum

 boat building

 1876 Keepers House - front lawn - now exhibits

 memorial to a fisherman lost at sea

 stairs downstairs

Their was a cute story on one level of the lighthouse showing what the son of the lightkeeper did with his sister's cat. He found out cats can float when he attached the cat to a parachute and dropped him from the top of the lighthouse. The cat survived. His sister didn’t learn of this until they were older adults.Probably a smart decision or she may have attached a small parachute to her brother and dropped HIM off of the top…..

 oil room in the lighthouse

 219 steps to the top

 view from a window on the way up

 views from the top

 the Keeper's office

 back over the bridge from the island

The Greek Festival turned out to be quite small, but the food and music were really good. We stood in the long lines to get food and then had them under the tent watching the dancing and listening to the Greek music. Greg got the combo platter of Pastitsio, Dolomathes, Spanakopita, Greek salad, rice and pita bread and I had a gyro. We grabbed a couple of baklava for dessert and then walked around the tents selling things. Oddly, someone was there selling stock market advice. YIKES!

Since there really wasn’t very much to see there, we got some 2 baklava and a Diples to take home. I forgot to take a photo of the yummy desserts before we chowed them down. 

 exhibit tents

 Greek music & dancing

food tents

We headed home to prepare for our last destination on this journey. We are just over 200 miles away from PSL, so, we are on our last leg of this journey. 

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