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Fashionplate Dan Bedore and Mother Nature's Son on the Barrier Islands South of Pensacola, Florida

On Friday, December 1, 2006, Mother Nature's Son and I walked from the west end of Pensacola Beach to Fort Pickens and back, stopping to explore the many World War II and earlier gun batteries. Storms had blown the doors off some of the World war II bunkers, so we could look inside. Saturday, we walked from the Navarre Beach Causeway to our hotel in Pensacola Beach. Both on Friday and Saturday, we saw lots of damage from Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis, such as roads and structures destroyed, etc. Sunday, we finished the bit between our hotel and where we finished Friday, then took a loop hike in the Naval Live Oaks Area of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, then finished our day walking Perdido Key to the ruins of the gun batteries there. I'd guess this was over 50 miles for the 3 days, with lots of interesting stuff to look at.
Sunset
Sunset
Dan at WWII Gunnery Bunker Complex.
John at WWII Gunnery Bunker Complex.
Lower Bearing for big turret.
It looks like a sand dune, but it's a bunker complex.
Dan inside a WWII Gun.
Inside the Barrel of the Gun.
Ft Pickens, 19th Century.
Ft Pickens, 19th Century.
Sunrise
Dead Bird
Dead Bird
Raccoon Print
Jellyfish
Sandman
Crab
Driftwood
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset

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