Perdido Key

[zachary]

Back from vacation a few to share...

Sunset from private sailboat tour



Union cannons trained on where Fort Mcree used to exist. They shelled it to hell and it disappeared into the sand in the 1950's


WW2 guns at Fort Pickens


Confederate positions near Fort Morgan

[zachary]

Empty beaches for miles


Inside Submarine USS Drum



USS Alabama - In Mobile Alabama, if you have never gone and seen this it is a must. Three different tours you can do. Easily spend all day with the USS Drum and the plane museum also!

[zachary]

Just over the way they said..it would be easy....






Pensacola Lighthouse


From Fort Pickens across

[zachary]

Entrance to Fort Morgan


Gun Placements


Fort Pickens


Imagine all lined up pointing at you




Adapted for each conflict with inserts


System to get powder/rounds to surface


8,000# of powder and a fire means this side of Fort no linger exists

[zachary]

Hard to read but information on the battle here with the three forts

[zachary]

Fort Barrancas - gun slot after gun slot

Looking back toward Fort Pickens

Looking at where Fort Mcree used to stand

[soap]

Cool.

[Back N Black]

Awesome post! That is on one of my places to visit one day for sure

[zachary]

Awesome post! That is on one of my places to visit one day for sure

Yea besides the whole beach beautiful and babes thing, there is so much great history in that immediate area.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Great, now I want to go there. Thanks!

[silverhatch]

Very cool.

[zachary]

Most of these forts were named after key people during the revolutionary war and the primitive forts were setup then. As each generations conflict came around they were updated and remodeled. Civil war is when a lot of the earth/brick build up construction came around and replaced timbers and sand. WW1 a lot of the larger batteries were established(there is one paper where a general writes how useless some of the batteries are and are unfit for use for WW1), then refit for WW2 weaponry some years later. Fort Morgan and Pickens were actually active and played a part of WW2, being used as home base for minesweepers in the gulf.

[01vnms4v]

great post and luv the pics

[helosailor]

Great pics, and they bring back a lot of great memories. I used to run past the lighthouse every morning during the week.
Next to Texas, the Pensacola area is really the only area that I'd consider living (again).