Stats
Miles traveled: 117.9
Miles traveled to date: 3681.0
States visited today: 2 – Florida, Alabama
States visited to date: 10
Tanks of gas pumped to date: 13
Meltdowns: 14
Loads of Laundry: 17
Illness: 4
Daily recap
Today, we visited the Gulf Islands National Seashore and Fort Pickens, Kevin worked from a bench, and we pushed the limits of how many kids you can put in a king bed.
Highlights
Exploring the visitor’s center at Gulf Islands National Seashore on the Florida panhandle
The kids started by exploring the visitor’s center and learning about local wildlife.
Lunch time.
This was one of the biggest cannons we’ve seen on the trip so far (and we’ve seen a lot)!
Getting (another) Junior Ranger badge
Another day, another Junior Ranger badge.
Playing pretend with a giant gun
Man (and woman) the cannons!
Getting some well-deserved rest after a fun filled day
There were four in the bed and the little one said…
Other photos from today
In today’s episode of “work from wherever you are,” Kevin worked from a bench at the visitor’s center in Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Kelsey put our National Parks pass on one of Kevin’s lanyards from work.
When the fireplaces are for display purposes only, birds can use the chimney tops to make nests.
Check it out, dude!
There was very little information about the fort, so we have no idea what this space was used for, but it was big and cool.
The kids explored these narrow, low passageways, which ended abruptly. We aren’t sure what they were used for.
There were a lot of these openings in the walls. We don’t know what they were for, but the kids liked to look and crawl through them.
Ainsley and Grayson discovered a “rat hole” at the back of this rough opening and then pretended to be rats defending their territory.
In many historic places, there are signs everywhere telling you to not climb on things, not go certain places, etc. Not so here. The kids had a great time exploring the fort at their own pace and in their own way.
Why’d Grayson have to be so tall, anyway?
Water seeped through the walls of the fort for nearly 200 years and has started to form stalactites.
Three cannon ports. The tracks on the floor are where the wheels on the cannon wheels would run so they could be aimed left and right.
Grayson found evidence that Bigfoot was here.
Well, hello there.
The archways were about eight feet tall at their apex. Kelsey for scale.
Rayleigh declined to go up the stairs to see the cannon for the third time.
To the dungeons with ye!
Kevin took a break from work and took a quick tour of the fort before we left for our hotel.
Heave!
And now for your moment of zen…
Some top quality hotel engineering right here.
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