Happy 48th anniversary to @gulfislandsnps, which was designated as a National Seashore #otd in 1971.
Happy 48th anniversary to @gulfislandsnps, which was designated as a National Seashore #otd in 1971. My own memories and experiences with Gulf Islands are strange ones, admittedly, but they taught me an important lesson:We visited Gulf Islands in September 2017 under the tense pretense of evacuating from Miami as Hurricane Irma tracked closer and closer to South Florida. We hurriedly left Miami and drove for nearly two days to get ourselves out of the forecast cone. When we arrived in Pensacola, we were exhausted, grumpy, and scared. But there was a new-to-us National Park unit to see, so that’s what we focused on. And once we made our way past the familiar brown arrowhead sign and into a stark and shimmering seaside wilderness, we were OK. We were in a National Park and we were home. National Parks are refuges for nature and for landscapes… but they’re also refuges for those that visit them. (at Gulf Islands National Seashore)https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZT8TVHGJ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=143guzmhsbqib -- source link