Tag: Fort Pickens

Snow on Pensacola Beach

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Kat and I usually try to spend the coldest month anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere on Pensacola Beach. In old Pensacola stands one of the world’s great seafood markets, Joe Patti’s. Normal winters here include at least a dozen sunny days fit for beachcombing, with a few warm enough to charbroil shrimp. But this year […]

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Evicted

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Around 10:00 Saturday, our 10th morning at the Gulf Islands National Seashore campground, National Park Service rangers began knocking on doors bearing bad news:  everyone has to pack up and leave before 4:00 this afternoon.  The campground is closed indefinitely due to lack of funding.   Yes, Kat and I were evicted from our paid for […]

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