Lightner Museum

Built as a social hall and ended it's usage in the 1930's a "Hobbies" magazine owner, Otto Lightner, from Chicago bought the castle and store his house collections here. When he died in 1950 he willed the estate to the city of St Augustine.

St Augustine

We decided to stay at the Pirate Haus Hostel again before we returned to the boat and we explored a bit more on a sunny, lovely day. This is a sight we couldn't pass up to have the two "Lichtner" girls in front of the Lightner museum.

Key Lime Pie

Mike and I both had a slice of this Keys famous dessert and wow was it perfect!

Then dessert!

We seeked out a local diner for dessert before we left the keys and Grace ate all but three bites of her chocolate chip ice cream pie.

Dinner time!

Since the drive from the hostel in Florida City to Marathon Island in the keys took 1 1/2 hrs we decided to grill burgers and corn at Sombrero Beach.

Sombrero Beach

We spent the warmest of all days we've had on this trip - a balmy 68 degree day with no wind - at Marathon's Sombrero Beach.

Here's the back of the bird

There were so many birds that sat by the canals although we didn't see any get eaten by the gators. There were hundreds of gators too that we saw thru our travels this day.

I spy

Can you find the bird in the trees?

Steady!

They are huge and a lot like an iguana how they sit in the sun to warm up from their shells actig like solar panels.

Northern Everglades Trip

We took a daytrip to see the American alligator and look at what we found!