Fireworks in St Augustine

We continued our travels up the coast to St Augustine. We had read about a big fireworks display planned there that evening over the Matanzas bay and thought that sounded like a fun side trip. Little did we know that this is apparently a major event for most of the area with tens of thousands of people lining the bay and filling the Lion Bridge from shore to shore. We find a lovely little spot to sit right next to Ponce DeLeon circle. They had a band playing jazz and older pop music and a little flea market to entertain is. We also walked around and enjoyed the architecture, people watching and some coffee. Even add far away as we were, there was a crowd there that night. It was a fun, expectant festive atmosphere and some boaters in the bay kept Yifat and some little children next to us entertained with volunteer, baby fireworks.

Just a typical evening for Charlie

The show began at 9:30 and we were impressed with the fireworks, the music, the echoes of the explosions off of the buildings of Flagler college and of course Charlie's attempts to calculate the energy content of the fireworks based on the wavelength of the light emitted, as well as careful measurements of the decibel levels of the explosions.