19/01: St. Augustine
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
One item on all of the "things to do" lists in St. Augustine is the trolley tour. When you buy a ticket for the trolley tour it is good for three days, so as the weather for the next three days is suppose to be reasonably good we decided this would be the time to take the trolley. When we were buying our tickets, we found out that if we bought a package (tour and some of the sites) our trolley time and free parking could be extended for the length of our stay in St. Augustine. This was great, now we can take our time exploring St. Augustine. Parking is expensive in St. Augustine and somewhat hard to find, especially for the truck, so now we don't have to worry about i.
Today, we started by taking the trolley for a complete tour around town. This gave us a good overview of the city and the trolley route. We didn't take any photos while we were on the trolley as we know we will revisit all of the areas we saw today. As it is Sunday today, there were a lot of tourists in town. We decided to go to the pedestrian mall, have lunch and walk around looking at the old buildings.
The restaurant we ate lunch at had a bear made from crushed beer cans. Some of the locals walking down the pedestrian mall.
Down one of the alley ways was this fellow and his dog. Not sure what the horn was but it did make and interesting sound. The dog just sat there like a statue, barely moved and didn't make a sound.
In the old part of the city the roads are very narrow. Lots of interesting architecture. Loved all the wrought iron balconies.
At the end of the pedestrian mall was the Catholic Church. Beautiful building, we'll be back to explore it some more.
The city is filled with beautiful Live Oak trees.
Carol playing trolley driver on the old trolley car.
Today, we started by taking the trolley for a complete tour around town. This gave us a good overview of the city and the trolley route. We didn't take any photos while we were on the trolley as we know we will revisit all of the areas we saw today. As it is Sunday today, there were a lot of tourists in town. We decided to go to the pedestrian mall, have lunch and walk around looking at the old buildings.
The restaurant we ate lunch at had a bear made from crushed beer cans. Some of the locals walking down the pedestrian mall.
Down one of the alley ways was this fellow and his dog. Not sure what the horn was but it did make and interesting sound. The dog just sat there like a statue, barely moved and didn't make a sound.
In the old part of the city the roads are very narrow. Lots of interesting architecture. Loved all the wrought iron balconies.
At the end of the pedestrian mall was the Catholic Church. Beautiful building, we'll be back to explore it some more.
The city is filled with beautiful Live Oak trees.
Carol playing trolley driver on the old trolley car.