May 14th - Pensacola, FL

A rest day to enjoy the dog beach and catch up on our blog. After updating the blog, we were stymied by a web hosting outage, which delayed publication by several days. Enjoyed good food and drinks at Shaggy's bayside deck. The deck was dog friendly. Streak and Charlie were actually treated better than we humans. They even got served a chicken and rice platter. 
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Near our campground, at the end of the Park's peninsula, stood Fort Pickens built in 1834 - one of forts three forts that guarded the entrance to Pensacola Harbor. Fort Pickens was occupied by Union soldiers during the Civil War. There were many artillery battles between the three forts and between the forts and ships. We toured the massive complex's tunnels and ramparts while the dogs waited outside in the shade. We learned that Geronomo and many other Apaches were imprisoned at this site for many years before being transferred to Fort Sill, OK.