Day 2 of Historic St. Augustine, FL.

We didn't get back to our Old Town Trolley Tour until around 2 o'clock this afternoon.
We took the trolley back down to the Old Town and walked around town and stopped and had
lunch. By the time we got back on the trolley and rode around seeing more of the town and buildings we didn't get done with going through the old jail or the St. Augustine history museum. We will have to do this first thing tomorrow when we return.
It was interesting learning about the buildings and different parts of the town. Aviles Street was the oldest part of the town originally.
More History: Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513.
Other Spanish explorers later found gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. The treasure was sent back to Spain in ships sailing in the Gulf Stream. Spanish settlements needed to be built in Florida to protect the Spanish treasure fleets. King Philip II of Spain sent Pedro Menendez to settle Florida and drive out French garrisons recently established there.
In September 1565, Pedro Menendez, with 700 soldiers and colonists, landed here and founded
St. Augustine, making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America.

This is what coquina (ko-KEE-na) looks like. This is what Fort Castillo de

San Marcos was built of.

There is a lot to see and do in this Old Town.