The nearest city to where we are currently workamping is St Augustine, which is about an hour drive away. Candi always says that ‘everything is relative,’ and distance is definitely one of them! When we were in Baltimore driving an hour to go somewhere would have taken some consideration, now an hour is considered short!

On the way in to St. Augustine we stopped at the Snowy Mountain Cafe for breakfast. We had driven past this cafe many times and laughed about the name. They don’t get much snow here and there are certainly no mountains around! The owners make and serve all the food and it was incredible. Candi had to get sausage gravy and biscuits since it is one of their specialties and one of her favorites. Mike got chicken fried steak which was their special for the day. We will definitely be stopping here again!

On a previous trip to St Augustine we had stopped at a Visitor’s Information Center and they suggested several ‘must sees.’  The first one we decided to try was the St. Augustine Alligator Farm. The tickets are $25.99 each which we thought was a bit high but we had a dollar off coupon that helped some.

Being from Maryland, alligators is not something we ever gave much thought to. Since we have been in Florida we have seen a few swimming in the St Johns River but, luckily, we hadn’t seen any up close until we got to the zoo.

The zoo is the only place in the world that has every living species of ‘crocodilian,’ which apparently is a fancy word for crocodiles and alligators. They also have an impressive number of snakes and birds. It’s well organized and has a fun layout. We spent about 4 hours there including walking through the bird rookery where we feared for the cleanliness of our hats! We also watched them feed Maximo, who, at 15 feet, 3 inches, and 1250 pounds is the largest animal in the zoo.

It was a fun day and we felt it was worth the drive and the entrance fee. We probably won’t go again, but if we did, we would bring clothespins for our noses, alligators really stink!!

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