We arrived at our next site .. Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina Beach, FL. Which is right by Amelia Island, just over the state line. It is a really nice campground. Our site is a short walk to the beach. There is a boardwalk from the campground to the beach like the last site at Huntington Beach, S.C., but they are in the process of redoing the boardwalk. We inquired as to where a Catholic Church was. There was one just about 10 min away. So we went to mass Sunday morning. It was too chilly for the beach, so we did some sight-seeing around the area. We also did some grocery shopping. We were able to pick up a few channels on television and lo and behold Richard was able to pick up the NASCAR race! I was so thrilled ... NOT!! We saw a little strip mall not far from the park, so I went in my car and did a little browsing.
Monday we went to tour Fort Clinch which is a real still standing fort. It really was interesting. I had no idea the forts were so large. There were a lot of cannons around it. One funny note, the guide showed the so called bathrooms. The officers had a private door and a seat with a hole in it, a typical out house, like the kind I remember when I was young ...( Guess I'm showing my age) , but the enlisted men's had no door, just a cubby corner with a hole in the floor.. No seat, they just squatted over it!!! Guess that was one of the advantages of being an officer! It still was a little to chilly for the beach though it was about 76, but super windy. So we did laundry instead.
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