The lecturer is talking about the new ships. We are on the Eagle. I do not have my booking number so I cannot connect to the portal yet. Sometimes too much food is served.
We are a flag ship and must follow health and safety rules. Always connected to Coast Guide. Toilet sounds powerful but please do not put anything in toilet except tissue paper. Three older women just came in. Now, Chris is explaining announcements. There is a table with descriptions of excursions. We have two drivers with us for all excursions. There is water onboard the bus.
Dr. Mary MacOgden. Very knowledgeable. —she is wearing high, high heels, a bright orange blouse. Snap shots of what we are going to learn this week.
She loves all things southern. Professor in history, daughter went to navel academy. Husband is also in military. We are on the ship. We will also tender. Saint John’s very old. We will see and be in lakes. River flows north. Home to many American Indian tribes. It has a Spanish foot print.
3500 lakes in the watershed. Estuary where there is brackish water. It is dredged by Army Corps of Engineers. 30 pump stations. Seminole have six reservations. Tribes have billions of dollars.
Fight between black and red tribes.
1711 is when the Spanish settle.Timacuas, extremely tall people.
Tattooed themselves.
Found3500 canoes one thousand year old.
Peat moss bogs, found bodies.
Mound culture. Shell mounds.
First sanctuary city was Saint Augistene.
Northerners wanted to see odd wild life,
27th state to enter the Union.
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