The Gulf Coast -The Forgotten Coast - Nature's Coast - St George Island - Carabelle

Rentals on St George Island, FL

What a cheerful spot.

St. George Island lighthouse.

We wanted to camp at the park however it is closed from Hurricane Michael damage.  The storm put a river through the island, which was all ready an island so now it made a new island.

Almost the whole time we were in this area it was foggy.  This was the beach at St. George Island State Park.

It was a small park with great ocean front sites.

This little guy was about the size of a dime, mighty he was though giving us the claw.  He walked across the floor of the laundromat.

It's the morning sunrise, another foggy day.

Look no fog!

It is really a great place without the fog, we may come back here again when we can enjoy some sunny days.

We are talking right on the water can't get any closer.

Christmas in Florida and Happy New Year

Our decorations, also thinking we should call our motor home the Moose and I'll change his attire after Christmas, Deck hasn't concurred yet, will see.

Top notch resort in Williston, FL.

We had a beautiful corner lot.

Can you believe this spot?

We paid way more then we usually do but this resort had everything.  After video chatting Christmas eve with the kids/grand kids on google Duo we headed out to play bingo, ha ha we have never played, we lost a quick $20, you have to pay attention they fly through those calls, serious stuff.

Christmas Day we were invited to a free dinner at 2pm.  This alone was worth the extra bucks we paid, it was wonderful, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, rolls and deserts beyond our wildest dreams.  Well worth the extra bucks to hang out in this beautiful resort and have dinner without cooking or cleaning up, priceless.

We moved onto Panacea RV resort which is hardly worth mentioning, thankfully we only had 2 days reserved there, they had water/electric/sewer so not a total flop.

Ho Hum RV Park in Carabelle, FL now were talking, our site is right on the Gulf Coast, just a little foggy, it's 1pm in the afternoon, were just pretending there is something to look at.

This is our New Year's place were here until the 2nd.

Looking better already.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Chiefland, Florida and Cedar Key

Great camping spot and kayaking area.

Our site.

A manatee swimming in the spring waters, the area was 6 feet above flood level from rains earlier in the week this made the waters murky usually they are crystal clear.  The bump in the water is a manatee.

Between 35 and 150 million gallons of crystal clear water flow from this first magnitude spring every day.  The water percolates through limerock to underground caves that feed the spring.  There were many divers going into the caves when we were there.  

Florida has more than 1,000 springs, the largest collection of springs in the world.

There are 27 springs parks in Florida.  90 % of drinking water for Floridians comes from the springs.

We spent the afternoon in Cedar Key enjoying some food and drink watching the fisherman on the boardwalk and waiting for sunset.  We drove about 35 miles from our campsite to get here.

Cedar Key

Cedar Key

Cedar Key

As the sunset the moon rose, this was on  December 22, 2018, one day after the winter solace, how cool was that!