Exploring Fort Pickens - Florida Panhandle Military Camp
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Welcome everyone. I'm in Pensacola,
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Florida today. You can see the beach
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behind me.
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We're going to go check out the remnants
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of Fort Pickins. Join me, shall
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you? Fort
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Pickins. Fort Pickins.
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There's a lesson you always need to
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learn when you're climbing around an old
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fort full of rusted metal like this
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little chain here that's
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rusted. You always want to wear
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appropriate shoes. As you can see, my
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feet are protected here with flip flops.
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Come on.
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Sand spur in my shoe right there.
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Painful on the
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foot. The
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I'm standing on a cannon now. It looks
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like this. But I used to stand on
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cannon.
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This was a lookout tower of some sorts.
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Pretty high up. You can see they're
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probably here with their guns or maybe
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they were just browsing over the horizon
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with the ocean.
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You have to wonder what that piece of
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concrete right there was used for. Maybe
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some sort of artillery
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station. There's another building right
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there. Look. Right there.
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Look at those metal spikes right there
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popping out. See those metal
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spikes? Must have been some sort of
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plate across there at one
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You kind of got to wonder what was
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stowed right in this little concrete
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hatch
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area down there. There's a little metal
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piece is almost like something sat right
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in there. I wonder what that could have
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been. This is a clever wartime maneuver.
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The gun would raise up over the edge of
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this concrete pillar and it would shoot
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and then it would duck back and back
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down. They called it shoot and
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there. You see my shadow, but right next
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to that looks like some chimney portals.
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Right underneath where I'm standing is a
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building covered by dirt. You got to
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wonder what's
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hiding right below us.
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Here's a
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tree. Tree.
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This must be where the hidden treasure
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was. It's a secret
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corridors. Which way? Left or right?
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Left or
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right? Fort Pickins is right here on
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Santa Rosa Island. You can hear the
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airplanes flying by. That's Eglund Air
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Force
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Base. This island we're on sometimes
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gets flooded and you can't even get out
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here. Luckily, it's one of the non
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flooded days.
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Whoa, this thing's really short. I'm too
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tall. I got to duck down. Looks like
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somebody already hit their head right
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there. This whole complex is pretty
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massive. Here's some random bricks that
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are left over. Just a reminder that each
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one of these bricks right here were
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handlaid. Now, these are hand laid down
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by me right
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there. Creepy dark tunnel down in here.
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Little
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echoey.
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Hello. Actually, it didn't echo very
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well. That was a non-echoing tunnel.
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echo. Have you ever been inside a fort
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before? If you have, leave a comment
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below. either this one, another fort, or
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if you build a fort, a treehouse fort,
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or if you've ever heard of a fort,
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anything that has to do with forts,
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leave a comment
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below.
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Forts. Look at the vastness of this.
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Vastness down
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there.
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Vastness.
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Plenty metal track straight
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around and straight up. It's the barrel
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of a gun. Kabam.
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This detailed photo graphic shows how
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they loaded the cannons. First, they had
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the sponge. They inserted a powder
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charge and they crammed it down with a
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ram rod. All while the gunner used his
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sight to aim the cannon.
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Cannonballs. Look at how decayed that is
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and rusted and broken.
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Thanks for joining me at Fort Pickins.
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