Wed, Nov 9:  Ft. Pickens, Pensacola, FL:  Cloudy and cool, but not raining this morning.  Around noon we headed over to Gulf Shores to see the movie, “A Man Called Ove”.   After the movie, we stopped at an Ace Hardware in the same strip mall and picked up a couple of things and headed back.  Drove down to the fort before going back to our site.  Still cloudy at this time.  The fort is directly across Pensacola Bay from the Naval Air Station where the Blue Angels fly out of.  What a great viewing spot for the air show.  If the show is early enough Friday morning, we may watch the show and then head out.  We’ll see.

The beach here in about 10 miles long.  Hardly anyone around.

Ft. Pickens is a pre-Civil-War-era fort.  Constructed in 1834.

These gravestones are from Stonesfield Plantation Cemetery, on land that is now Pensacola Naval Air Station.  Chasefield Plantation was the home of Major William H. Chase, who supervised the construction of Ft. Pickens in the early 1800s.