Anastasia State Park. This site had nice bathrooms, was cheaper and its only
negative quality was that the 'spots' were unpaved - hardly a reason to reject
it, and in fact the parking bays were lined with trees which was rather lovely –
until a squirrel started throwing acorns out of the trees and onto the top of the
van that night.
We spent the rest of the day in the town of St Augustine using the ‘sightseeing
train' to, well, see the sights! It was a hop on and off service and during the
afternoon we covered the whole route at least once. The narration during the
tour was quite interesting - though some of the content was a little dubious:
'the Lightner Museum has a collection second only to the Smithsonian in the
US' Really? Now we were glad that we hadn’t visited the Smithsonian,
because it must be crap!
St Augustine is a town full of interesting old buildings and museums; in
fact they are a little obsessed with how old it is (it is the nation’s oldest city,
founded in 1565). The train was certainly a good way to see the town,
especially because we got free parking included with our tickets. We also got
free entry to the Old Florida museum.
The museum consisted of three small outside spaces mocked up to
represent different periods from the state's past, where visitors could try
historic activities. These included sheep feeding and ploughing in the Pioneer
Era; scraping hides in the Timucua Indian Era; and chicken pushing in the
Spanish Colonial Era. Actually you were just supposed to stroke them but we
tried (unsuccessfully) to push them off their narrow roost...just to make it more
interesting.