Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Apalachicola Maritime Museum

Birds on Pier



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In spite of visiting Apalachicola several times while camping nearby, we never visited the Maritime Museum. This time we did, and we will visit again.

This small museum packs a lot of information, so take your time to walk around. The story of Apalachicola, and how it reinvented itself so many times over the centuries as one major industry died out and another took its place, inspires even the most cynical. In so many ways it is a microcosm of our country, always moving forward and finding something new when the existing business died out.

Be sure to take a walk out the back door to the pier. Right next door to a fishing business, the gulls, terns, and pelicans crowd on the pier of that building waiting for scraps. As we watched, a flock of pelicans flew overhead trying to land on the already crowded pier, causing the noisy, restless birds already there to start calling, flying around, and then everyone landed again.

Various boat tours are available, but unfortunately on this visit we were unable to take one. Something to look forward to for our next visit.

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