St. Augustine...day 2

We have had near perfect weather this whole trip. There was a chance of rain on our way to Hallandale, it amounted to a few sprinkles. The temps have been in the mid 80's, low humidity and almost always sunny skies. Tomorrow we'll be 'on the road again' leaving sunny Florida to Minnesota.

We toured the older part of St. Augustine today. There are many similarities between St. Augustine and Key West. Henry Flagler helped develop the east coast of Florida and constructed a railway from St. Augustine to Key West.

Out to the beach this morning.

Tolamato Cemetary. During the First Spanish Period, prior to 1763, this site was occupied by the Christian Indian village of Tolomato, with its chapel and burying ground served by Christian missionaries. The village was abandoned when Great Britain acquired Florida. In 1777 Father Pedro Camps, pastor of the Minorcan colonists, who had come to St. Augustine after the failure of Andrew Turnbull's settlement at New Smyrna, obtained permission from Governor Patrick Tonyn to establish this cemetery for his parishoners. Father Camps was buried here in 1790; ten years later his remains were re-interred in the "new church," the present Catherdral. The first bishop of St. Augustine, Augustin Verot (d. 1826), is buried in the mortuary chapel at the rear of the cemetery. The last burial took place in 1892.