Tuesday – Visiting the Fort Walton Area

We had identified a couple of museums to visit, so we packed a picnic and set off. The first was a small local history museum which described how the area had developed since the Spanish settled here in the 17th century, also it showed how pioneers lived. It was very interesting. We then moved on to the Fort Walton Museum of Aviation Armament. This is a collection of modern, but no longer used, aircraft and their armament, such as bombs and missiles. We both found it interesting. I had not realised how long some of these planes have been around. For instance the Blackbird, which is the fastest plane around, was designed in 1956 and first flew in 1964. We came home via a huge retail outlet shopping square, where Sally had a really pleasant, but tiring couple of hours, while I went off to Topsail Hill State Preserve, which is preserving some of the dune land area. It was quite windy on the shore. but very beautiful. When Sally had finished shopping we had a coffee in a Panera Bread café. When we got home I made a soup from the ham bone that was left from the joint we bought last Thursday, though we will have enough ham to provide lunch all week.