St. Augustine Municipal Marina, St. Augustine, Florida

The International Speedway Bridge in Daytona Beach

Murals on the International Speedway Bridge supports in Daytona Beach

Another beautiful travel day, warm and sunny with a light breeze. We have been so lucky with weather. Started out by passing under the city's 4 bridges. One, the International Speedway Boulevard bridge, is a beautiful curved 65 ft high structure. The supports of the bridge each have a section around near the bottom painted with dolphins and manatee - first bridge that we have seen with that kind of decoration. As we travelled north, we passed a lot of marsh land, miles and miles with no houses. Then we got into a more built up area with long docks leading out into the water and some beautiful homes. Travelled with dolphins again today, we never get tired of watching those beautiful creatures. Pelicans up here are white, and white and grey rather than the brown ones we were seeing down south. Also seeing Spanish moss on trees again, made us realize that we had not seen that further south. Got to St. Augustine mid-afternoon. We had been warned about strong tidal currents here, and they were strong. Made docking rather a challenge. The tides here are higher than we have seen before, up to 5 ft.  Several other looper boats here as well, most people we had not met before.
Went for a long walk around town, St Augustine is a beautiful historic city and there is a lot to see and do. Hope to take a tour tomorrow to see more of it. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the US. The city's roots are Spanish, evident in the Mediterranean architecture in the old town. 

Memorial Presbyterian Church in St Augustine

This pirate ship does tours of St. Augustine, is docked near us.

Lions guard the Bridge of Lions over the Intracoastal at St. Augustine.

This sailboat seemed to be in diffilcuty at low tide. When we came back later it was upright again.

The front of Flagler college; it was once a hotel, flagship hotel of a chain built by Mr. Flagler, then later turned into a college. The buildings and grounds are extensive, all I could think of was what a beautiful place to go to school.

We plan to stay here and tour the city tomorrow.