El Morro--More from San Juan

Well after our Sunday church adventure Scott and I decided to walk down to the popular San Juan tourist area. We drove through some of Old San Juan and we visited El Morro. This was a fort built in 1539 by the Spanish when they owned the island of Puerto Rico. They built this fort around one side of the island to fend off pirates and other invaders. Here I am overlooking the grass leading to El Morro--and no they don't need sprinklers in San Juan, it rains so much that everything stays green!

Here is a view of the moat...or it was a moat at one point...can't you just imagine water in this? I thought it was so cool. There isn't a drawbridge there anymore, its a straight across bridge now but what a cool sight.

Here's Scott in the guard tower...since it was Sunday we didn't pay to go in and do the tour, so we just walked around the grounds and that was still really neat!

This is one of my favorite photos!! I wish I had it in 8 by 10 size for you all to see. I was standing on one of the fortress walls and taking this picture looking back at the coast of San Juan....don't you love the coloring of the buildings and all the green?
I'm so glad we got to spend some time here!