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July 11, 2009

Postcards From Nowhere: Pensacola

Above: Fishing pier at Pensacola Beach. At 1,471 feet in length, the Pensacola Beach Gulf Fishing Pier is the longest on the Gulf of Mexico. It was destroyed and rebuilt at some point. Probably after Hurricane Ivan, I guess.

Above: Penscola Beach, as seen from the fishing pier.

Above: A Spanish Mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus) some guy caught off the pier.

Above: Someone airbrushed a turtle onto some equipment on the pier.

Above: If I'm not mistaken, this is Lurch from the Addams Family.

Above: They just recently reopened the road to Fort Pickens, so Jen and I drove out there to check it out, as she'd never seen it. We saw this Osprey nest on the way out there.

Above: This is a shot of Fort Pickens, a fort guarding the entrance to Escambia Bay and the Santa Rosa Island Sound. Geronimo and his three wives were held captive here for some time after being captured and deported from their native Apache lands in Arizona.

Above: Catacombs inside of Fort PIckens.

Above: Brick ceiling in Fort PIckens.

Above: Jennifer wilting like a flower in the sun at Fort Pickens. She actually enjoyed the fort very much, as she had no idea what to expect. She liked wandering through the cool catacombs beneath the groin vaulted ceilings. But outside was pretty hot.

Above: Catacombs inside of Fort PIckens.

Above: The Gulf coast of the Santa Rosa Island.

Above: Jennifer poses before a 32 pound cannon.

Above: I believe that this is called Trumpet Vine or Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans).

Above: Buildings surrounding Fort Pickens.

Above: Boeing T-45 Goshawk trainer.

Above: Buildings surrounding Fort Pickens.

Above: Jennifer and Jack at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Jennifer and Caroline at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Jennifer, Jack, and Kate bury Caroline at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Jack and Caroline at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Kate at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Jennifer and Caroline bury Jack at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Kate, Caroline, and Jack bury Jennifer at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: Kate at Peg Leg Pete's.

Above: USS Alabama in Mobile, AL.

Above: Some grass swamps and small islands near the Gulf Coast.

Above: Lighthouse near Biloxi, MS.

Above: Heading out from the D'Iberville marina.

Above: Hurricane-ravaged Deer Island.

Above: ?

Above: Some suicidal locals fishing in a tiny skiff at Dog Keys Pass.

Above: A red channel marker indicating the channel from DIberville out into the Gulf between Deer Island and Horn Island.

Above: Jonathan retrieves a buoy that we set to mark a wreck in 70 feet of water about 20 miles off the coast of Mississippi.

Above: David releases a small shark.

Above: One of the countless off-shore oil drilling/pumping platforms that dot the Gulf of Mexico.

Above: My understanding is that this is a radio tower used by the Air Force. My assumptions is that this is a VOR radio tower.

Above: A crew boat takes supplies to an off-shore drilling station.

Above: Jonathan landing a Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) while fishing off of a Chevron deep sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles off the Mississippi coast.

Above: Jonathan lands a Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) while fishing off of a Chevron deep sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles off the Mississippi coast.

Above: Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico 15 miles off the Mississippi coast.

Above: Jennifer suffering beneath the summer sun on Pensacola Beach.

Above: The T-6A Texan II Aerial Demonstration Team performs above Pensacola Beach.

Above: USMC Lockheed C-130T Hercules "Fat Albert", the support aircraft for the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team. The "Fat Albert" has jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) rockets mounted on the sides.