[KevinTodd]

I spent countless hours there as a kid, riding my bicycle around the top of the perimeter walls and exploring deep into each and every battery. They were all open at that point; sometimes filled with water and sometimes dry and accessible. I can still remember some very specific areas, such as a small cistern that still bubbled to the surface with natural gas, a set of marble steps stained with blood, the salty deposits all over the interior walls, and the museum on the property that held some interesting artifacts. I feel fortunate to have grown up close enough to have visited as mush as we did.

We had tons of Forts near us too--Pickens, McRae, Barrancas, etc.....all fascinating to me as a kid.