{"id":9960,"date":"2024-06-13T08:14:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2024-06-13T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:14:05","slug":"auto-train-trip-florida-wed-6-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=9960","title":{"rendered":"Auto Train Trip Florida Wed 6\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday 6\/12<\/strong>

After breakfast at the hotel, we left around 9:30 for Fort Morgan in hopes of getting a different view of the Sand Island LH. Paid the admission fee ($10 for 2 seniors), parked and walk to the elevated battery. Lucky! A big ship was just passing by. Finished up around 10:40 and departed for the ferry to Dauphin Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Todays Travels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gary napped and Joyce climbed the side to catch the breezes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paid the ferry fare at 10:47. Now to wait until 11:45 for the next crossing. Although we were in lane 4, they loaded us so we were in the center section of the ferry. What a surprise–we were in the first group to exit the ferry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next stop was Round Island Lighthouse. Then, on to find a letterbox cache. Turns out it was at an ice cream shop at a time that a cool dessert was appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Round Island (relocated after collapsed by a hurricane)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Best cache – inside an ice cream shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next stop was to see the Biloxi Mississippi lighthouse. We arrived around sunset at the New Canal Lighthouse in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biloxi Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Right by the main highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bilingual Welcome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Canal from the boat channel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Canal from Basin off Lake Pontchartrain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then to the hotel after a circuitous drive through NO neighborhoods we checked in around 8 PM.  Dinner from supplies (ham, mashed potatoes and tropical fruit, a nice Cotes du Rhone and homemade cookies for dessert).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just tall enough for this cache<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Near lighthouse so couldn’t pass it by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creative signage in NO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lake Pontchartrain Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 6\/12 After breakfast at the hotel, we left around 9:30 for Fort Morgan in hopes of getting a different view of the Sand Island LH. Paid the admission fee ($10 for 2 seniors), parked and walk to the elevated battery. Lucky! A big ship was just passing by. Finished up around 10:40 and departed … Continue reading Auto Train Trip Florida Wed 6\/12<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GgIT-2AE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}