Juan Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth

Today we visited the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine. It was so interesting and informative. To think that we were standing where Ponce de Leon arrived in 1513 is amazing. We drank some of the mineral water from the Fountain of Youth Spring, although we don't expect to return to our youth any time soon. Tomorrow morning we head out to Georgia on our trek north to Michigan.

The cross of stones was discovered in this location

next to the Fountain of Youth and it is believed to

have been placed there by Ponce de Leon in 1513.

The cross is 15 rocks across and 13 rocks from top

bottom and they assume that signified the year

they were placed there.

This is the "Fountain of Youth" spring. Once St.

Augustine become a heavily populated city, the

water level dropped and today the spring is

200 ft. below ground level.

A skink lizard... I had never seen one

300-year-old pots on the

grounds

Pots

This globe was 54 ft. in circumference

and 2 stories tall. It was lit from

inside and is the only one of it's

kind

A rare albino peacock

Statue of Juan Ponce de Leon

Reinactors on the grounds

Great heron

Peacock