After taking a day to recover from sickness we jammed two days into one to see Fort Matanzas in St. Augustine and the MOSH Museum in Jacksonville.
Here is the history of the fort:
We took a ferry boat to get across to the fort, almost as exciting as seeing the fort itself. :)
The fort is on Rattlesnake Island. Our guide gave us the speech on the way over to stay on the trails and watch for snakes. As we were standing right next to the steps to climb up onto the fort Abby noticed a snake under the first step. The guide was shocked. She told us later that she gives that speech over and over every day, but she has never actually seen a snake. The snake moved away from the steps and we all hurried up onto the fort. We are not sure if it was a rattlesnake or not, but they had us stay up on top of the fort and didn't bring anyone else over until they had some park officials come over to hunt down the snake. They still hadn't found it by the time we left. We had a long time to explore everything up on the fort since we were stuck up there all alone until they made sure the coast was clear for us to come down.
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