I just got back Tuesday from St Augustine, Florida... was visiting the twin brother. We did lots of fun things while I was there. Most of the things we did, he hadn't done before, which was pretty cool too. This is what my trip looked like:

Day 1 - Visited the lighthouse, walked out to the end of the pier, and went to a winery

Day 2 - Went to the manatee refuge, went to the outlet malls

Day 3 - visited the fort, walked around downtown, went night fishing

Day 4 - Took the dog to the beach, had a crab boil

Day 5 - Went to two different state parks, walked along the beach

It was cool cause St Augustine is the oldest city in the US so there's lots of history. So here some of my pics.

The lighthouse:

The winery & manatees:

They had their highest count in a year! 227 sea cows! They were all over the place! They had so many white scars :'(

Also, in one of the pics, it shows an underwater cave. It goes down and back 120 ft! In the summer when the manatees are gone, people scuba dive in it.

Cool.
Did you ride one? We need to go explore that cave!
Always like to see interesting new pics. Thanks!

Will post more in a couple hours...

The Fort - Castillo de San Marcos
(a caption from my pamphlet says...)

Castillo de San Marcos was for many years the northernost outpost of Spain's vast New World Empire. It is the oldest masonry fort and best-preserved example of a Spanish colonial fortification in continental US. It protected St Augustine from pirate raids and from Spain's major rival, Great Britain, during a time when the Florida-Georgia-Carolina coastline was an explosive international battleground.

St Augustine was founded in 1565!
The fort was built in 1738.

I thought the construction of the fort was really interesting. (there's a picture of the coquina wall below... the shell pic)

The Stone that Saved Spanish Florida
Given its light and porous nature, coquina would seem to be a poor choice of building material for a fort. However the Spanish had few other options; it was the only stone available on the northeast coast of La Florida. However, coquina's porosity turned out to have an unexpected benefit. Because of its conglomerate mixture coquina contains millions of microscopic air pockets making it compressible.

A cannon ball fired at more solid material, such as granite or brick would shatter the wall into flying shards, but cannon balls fired at the walls of the Castillo burrowed their way into the rock and stuck there, much like a bb would if fired into Styrofoam. So the thick coquina walls absorbed or deflected projectiles rather than yielding to them, providing a surprisingly long-lived fortress.

The fort again...
The oven below was for the army to heat cannonballs until red hot. They would then fire them at the enemy's wooden ships to set them afire.

Our night fishing prizes

The doggy (Cooper) playing at the beach

Our crab boil

Us at a state park... the forests there are weird! They consist of live oaks and palms!

The beach... crazy cool rocks