her story. In her tale she told him of a magic fountain
             that turned middle aged and old persons in to young vibrant men and women. If the riches did not attract
             Ponce de Leon, the story of this fountain did. He was in his fifties and since his political career had failed,
             he figured, it was as good a time as any to explore the land (1990).
             Ponce de Leon left San German, Puerto Rico on March 3, 1513 and sailed with a fleet of three
             ships heading northwest toward Bimini. The chain of seven hundred Bahama islands was on his route but
             time would not allow him to explore each of them. He did visit the island of San Salvador where
             Columbus made his first landfall two decades before. The crew sighted the coast of America on March 3,
             1513. This was Easter Sunday so he named the land Florida after the Spanish name for Easter, Pascua de
             Flores (Ponce, 1993). The first sighting took place near present day St. Augustine, which was to be
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