Fort Pickens

Today we drove west toward Pensacola as we wanted to visit Fort Pickens.

Fort Pickens is on Santa Rosa Island in the National Seashore. The roadway splits the island in two with white white sand on either side.

Fort Pickens was started in 1829 and was actually a Union Fort during the civil war. The fort was used right up until 1949 protecting Pensacola Bay. Below is Battery Langdon, which housed two 12 inch guns, the walls are 10 feet thick and the overhead masonary is 17 feet thick to protect the guns and crews..

The park is so quiet, we look lonely in the parking lot as we climbed Battery Worth.

This is inside the fort grounds.

Looking down the double archways.




To the north of the island is a pier and you can see across the bay to Pensacola

Battery 234 is hidden beneath the pile that looks like a hill, a whole area used for plotting and planning where to aim.

The beach was beautiful, it is like this for at least 25 miles that we drove.

Here is some of the big machinery cleaning up after the oil spill.

By the way I have quit looking for the sea turtles, I finally asked and they do not come for another month. Oh well, next time.