Freeedom Adventures

01/23/2025

💥Okay, a year after establishing Freeedom Adventures and making a page for it, I made the leap creating an Instagram now too.
You may be thinking what was I waiting for? 😄.
Well first I wasn’t sure at that time that it was Instagram worthy lol. 🥴
But I also was a little social media weary, as I run/own two other business pages in addition to a Christian page and my own personal. 🙃 And that’s just social media: actually running and trying to grow business is quite the ongoing work.
BUT I now have the way that consolidates social media work (one message, dual posting) so it’s smooth sailing after creating. 😁
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SOooo … if you’re an IG fan or know others that like to be on there for their info and entertainment, please go give it a follow.
🥰🙏🏼🧡🖤💛

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01/21/2025

When Martin Luther King Jr came to St Augustine in 1964, it was a pivotal time for the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, just a short time afterwards, the Civil Rights Act was adopted.
There was so much important activity as a matter of fact, that you can follow the Freedom Trail through town in the way of an audio tour! If you call the number in the brown part of the sign in the image here, you can begin a guided audio tour throughout St Augustine. You can walk it, ride it , drive it or just listen.

In the picture on this sign, Dr King sits next to Robert B Hayling, who was the main organizer of the movement in St Augustine. His home, also pictured here, is one of the stops on the tour (you can read about it's importance). He also has a park named after him that represents our freedoms in the civil rights movement called Freedom Park [also Robert B Hayling park] If you go south of Eddie Vickers Park, you will be on the trail to the park which comes complete with freedom chimes and blocks that are engraved with images drawn to represent civil freedom.
I encourage you to check both of these out! Something great to do on an afternoon in town.

01/17/2025

L🤍ve Trees. 💚🌳🌴
I have known about them since probably my first time into town.
I have shared about their existence to many, many guests.
But as I write more about town for this Freeedom Adventures endeavor, I have really opened my eyes to them. There are a LOT more than I thought!
I encourage you regularly to take a closer look at things around, take your time as you walk, and be open to all that you see. But that's usually about buildings, structures, streets, statues. Now I want you be aware of organic things too!
See just how many Love Trees you can find! 😎

PS Love trees are technically when two different species of trees grow together. Not just next to each other but at some point somewhat through each other. Wrapped around in an embrace of LOVE 💚

01/14/2025

You can walk the grounds any time at the Castillo de San Marcos. No ticket required. Get a close up look, it’s truly magnificent.

01/09/2025

🔪🩸👊True Crime addicts are getting a good dose of St Augustine crime (ok who are we kidding? It's murder folks. That's the crime) I'm thinking of doing a part two of sorts this year. . for those who have already taken this, loved it, but haven't gotten their fill. They want more. And there IS more that can be delved into.
So if true crime is your thing, come immerse yourself in the details and give your opinion .. .was justice served? 🤔🧐

01/09/2025

From our founding days and even before that with the natives, people in the area survived and thrived with a fresh water supply by wells dug on their properties in addition to community wells.
At that time, the aquifer was only 7-10 feet below the surface. Today, due to increased water usage by increased population, the aquifer is approximately 130 feet down!!
This well pictured is from the 16th century! 😳 There are many wells (or the remnants of them, as these are not still operating wells) around town, but I do NOT know of one as old as this, from our founding years in the 1500's. PLEASE if anyone DOES know of another, share the location and/or pictures. I would love know it and see it! Our wells are such an interesting part of our heritage.

01/06/2025

🧐Here is another Where-is-This teaser❓🤔
The only clues I will give you is this is part of a door and it is roughly in downtown area (specifically not far out like across bridge or Lincolville etc)
🗣👂Let's here those guesses!! 👀
If it gets time for more clues, I'll update. 😏

01/02/2025

📆New Year, New Opportunities.✨ But we need to be grateful for the past-- 🙏It has only been ONE YEAR since Freeedom Adventures' inception (can you believe it?) There has been soooo much growth and I have all of you to thank. If it weren't for YOU, Freeedom Adventures wouldn't be here.
I can only imagine what the next year will bring,🤔🧐😁🤘 but I am confident with your support and the grace of God, Freeedom Adventures will continue to enlighten, educate and entertain.
🤗Please help a small business out and if you have been touched by information on this page or an encounter with a tour or anything that made you smile, a share would be wonderful so others may experience the same 😄🥰 (you can invite to the page too)
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!! 💛🖤🧡 May YOU ALL be blessed in whatever endeavor you embark on, with good health and loads of joy! 🙏

12/27/2024

🌟Nights of Lights St Augustine is in it's 31st year. ✨ Ever wonder how/why it got started? Well, I'll tell you! (and you can read about it in the attached article)
Former St. Augustine City Commissioner Bill Lennon said that back in 1993, he and his family would stop after Mass downtown and enjoy the lights of a sign posted at the foot of the Bridge of Lions that said "Feliz Navidad" at Christmastime.
"I started looking around and the city was dark. Every business owner had closed or was on vacation," he said. "I thought about what it would be like to follow the edges of the buildings here and put them in lights."
Former Mayor and City Commissioner Len Weeks liked the idea. Weeks at the time was a member of the Tourist Advisory Board and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's downtown council, as well as owning his own restaurant and being a city resident and construction contractor. "I was just a concerned citizen who wanted to promote St. Augustine," he said. "When this came up, I realized that it was a good idea. I just picked up the ball and ran with it."
Lennon said Weeks "worked hard at soliciting money (for business owners to light their own buildings) and people started coming around." Weeks said, "It wasn't an easy battle. Some in the community were against it because they didn't want it to look like Disney."
After a while, people realized it enhanced downtown architecture, and its financial impact grew every year.
The city hired the Atlanta lighting contractor who lit Gatlinburg TN but included a provision that the work had to be done in a month.
Witnesses reported seeing Weeks and his work crew hanging lights on the Bridge of Lions during a driving rainstorm.
He also worked hanging lights around windows of the Visitor Information Center, City Marina, the Plaza de la Constitution's gazebo and U.S. Post Office.
"Sometimes I took my 6-month-old daughter along in a stroller when changing burnt-out light bulbs. I kept the fresh bulbs in the stroller," Weeks said. ( I believe this is where the tradition started of having one red bulb in the mix: he would plant one to keep his growing daughter busy as he did his work)
Now thousands of people come each day during the festivities, to see the lights, sings carols and embrace the winter magic.

Article from 2013 interviews
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/local/2013/11/25/how-st-augustines-nights-lights-tradition-began/15807973007/

12/24/2024

Are you going to be out and about in downtown St Augustine? 🎄 Want to add a little mystery to your strolls? Keep your eye out for King Christmas. . .see if you can find him!!! 👀

Added bonus if you are interested: finding him can earn you free tour tickets! 🤩

KING CHRISTMAS 🫅
You into Treasure Hunts? Seek-n-find? Hidden Objects?👀
Find King Christmas and win a free tour.🙌🎉 Or just do it for fun!!
This figure has Christian holiday and St Augustine symbolism:
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, the crown represents Jesus being the “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords” [Revelation 19:16]
Jesus is also known as the Lion of Judah, fulfilling the prophecy in Genesis 49.
Our mascot here in St Augustine is also the lion. You will see hundreds of them all over town.
🌟✅Directions: While you walk or ride around town, search for this lion with his crown.
He is about 4-5 inches long. Located in the historic district, between Orange St and Bridge St, Bayfront to Riberia.
He can be seen from a main outdoor spot (no hidden yards or properties or indoors)
If you find him, snap a picture or write where you found him and send to us via Private Message. DON’T ruin it for anybody else by posting publicly!
If we receive the correct location image, You can receive a free tour ticket with the purchase of one. So BOGO. As many as you want: BOGO, Buy two get two free, buy 3 get 3 free, etc.
PLEASE do not remove the figure.
Have Fun!!!

12/21/2024

🌟Nights of Lights, St Augustine FL going on now [and for another month]. 🌟
It truly is amazing and awe inspiring. Millions of little lights aglow.
I highly recommend feeling it's full effects by foot👣. . . .stroll the town at your own pace, pausing to take it in, feel the peace and warmth. You can't feel all that while driving by.
Second recommendation: do not do this on a Friday or Saturday night. In all honesty, thousands of people in town then and the atmosphere is far from peaceful. 😵‍💫 Yes if you want to party it up and yell and sing with thousands of others while fighting your way through the crowds, then that IS the time for you!! Maybe do both. lol But I find the magical feel of it ✨is more enjoyable when not so crazy. Just my opinion.
Hope this helps guide you to your best experience. Enjoy!!!

12/19/2024

KING CHRISTMAS 🫅
You into Treasure Hunts? Seek-n-find? Hidden Objects?👀
Find King Christmas and win a free tour.🙌🎉 Or just do it for fun!!
This figure has Christian holiday and St Augustine symbolism:
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, the crown represents Jesus being the “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords” [Revelation 19:16]
Jesus is also known as the Lion of Judah, fulfilling the prophecy in Genesis 49.
Our mascot here in St Augustine is also the lion. You will see hundreds of them all over town.
🌟✅Directions: While you walk or ride around town, search for this lion with his crown.
He is about 4-5 inches long. Located in the historic district, between Orange St and Bridge St, Bayfront to Riberia.
He can be seen from a main outdoor spot (no hidden yards or properties or indoors)
If you find him, snap a picture or write where you found him and send to us via Private Message. DON’T ruin it for anybody else by posting publicly!
If we receive the correct location image, You can receive a free tour ticket with the purchase of one. So BOGO. As many as you want: BOGO, Buy two get two free, buy 3 get 3 free, etc.
PLEASE do not remove the figure.
Have Fun!!!

12/16/2024

Some of my favorites features in town are clock towers or light poles. Don't ask me why. 🤔😵‍💫😏💚 It's the photographer part of me that is drawn to them.
What is a part of town that draws your own interest?🧐😎

12/12/2024

💝Great gifts. . . . Great help for local and small businesses.💛🖤
Keep funding in our country and community. 💲💵
Shop Small Business. . . .Shop Local. . . . & Shop Activities! ➡️ That means all gifts do not need to be a tangible objects. Many people would love to have something to Do, somewhere to GO, etc. Performances, museums, excursions, and, of course, TOURS! 😁❣️🎉Make Memories🥰

Freeedom Adventures offers Photo Adventures, True Crime tours, Kids Pirate Experience and Secrets of St Augustine history tour. Private Tours and Ghost tours available too!! Most tours are 90 minutes and all are walking. However special arrangements can be made.
See this link for options: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/freeedomphotography/?full-items=yes

12/07/2024

We come together to remember and honor the 2,403 people who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor on this day 1941. ❤️‍🩹🙏🏼

12/01/2024

Recognize this ? Such craftsmanship and beauty to be seen in this town. Get out and find it 🥰🌟

11/30/2024

Thanksgiving holiday has me thankful for all of my wonderful guests 💛🖤🧡
I’d like to start sharing some comments/reviews so that perhaps anyone contemplating a tour will know the thoughts of previous customers experiences.
🌟THANK YOU to all customers and to those taking the time to review! 💫 As a small local business it’s truly appreciated 🙌🏼🙏🏼
(This one is for Secrets of St Augustine tour)