#throwbackthursday Take a dip! During World War II, the US Coast Guardsmen training at the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College) and stationed at the St. Augustine Lighthouse, found the moat at the Castillo de San Marcos to be an attractive spot for swimming after their training sessions. The photo depicts a large group of Coasties gathered around the glacis, a man-made slope, of the Castillo de San Marcos. One of them is captured in the act of jumping — or perhaps being pushed — into the filled moat. The moat may have never had sharks and alligators in it, but it did have at least one Coastie. 📸: Coastie jumping into the moat at the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in St. Augustine, Florida. #staugustinelighthouse #throwback #photooftheday #photography #vintage #WWII #staugustine #florida #saintaugustine #fort #castillodesanmarcos #photo