Thu, Nov 10, Ft. Pickens, Pensacola, FL:  After breakfast we headed back to the ACE Hardware Store in Gulf Shores to return some things and get a towel bar for the bathroom.  After that we came back and parked by the campground store and walked out to the beach.  A beautiful, sunny day today.  While at the beach we heard some plane activity and headed down to the fort to watch the practice session.  The stunt planes were performing first.  Watched for a while and then headed to Pensacola Beach to get some lunch.  Went to Peg Leg Pete’s and we both had Cajun shrimp wraps.  Really good.  We were starved by then.  Back to the campground and the Blue Angels were rehearsing.  Saw the show from our campsite.  They are spectacular.  Their homecoming shows are Friday and Saturday.  They’re gone all summer performing in other parts of the country, and they come back “home” for the winter.  They lost one of their pilots at an airshow a few months ago.  74 today and beautiful.  We leave tomorrow morning for Perry, FL, for one night and then on to Lake Manatee for a week. 

Looks more like Minnesota in the dead of winter than Pensacola.

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Some of the flora on the sand dunes.

The beach is pretty--and devoid of humanoids.

The Blue Angels as seen from our site.