2013 - Mar 24 Drove to Port St. Joe, then back to the campground

It stormed like hell overnight. Constant thunder and rain for a couple of hours in the wee hours of the morning. When we got up at 7:00, it was gloomy and cool. We went down to use the Wi-Fi to try to get the one site available at Sebastian Inlet State Park for February 24, 2014 for a week, but I missed it, so we reserved a week at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park. It's in a remote area on the north shore of Lake Okeechobee, but other than that, we're wingin' it!

We came back to camp, showered and ate breakfast before driving to Port St. Joe, which is across the bay from our campground at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park. Look it up on a map and the pictures will make more sense.

After driving around town and looking around at a sporting goods store, we ate lunch at Peppers, a Mexican place that seemed to be the only non-chain restaurant open on this particular Sunday morning. Food was plentiful and good.

We drove back around the bay and out onto the peninsula where we stopped to take a couple of pictures on the other side of the stone seawall protecting the highway from the waters of the Gulf. Then it was back to the campground. and a walk on the beach.

We stopped by Charlie and Carol's to show them the pictures of our Mexico trip and they forced me to drink some Scotch and Marsha some wine. After that, we killed some time before walking across the boardwalk to the beach to watch the sunset. It wasn't great, but I got a couple of shots before the sun went behind the clouds.

It was another lazy day, but we didn't have any snow, unlike home. We're going to try to extend our stay here or find another place in the Panhandle to stay for a couple of days to give the snow up home a chance to melt.

We'll keep you posted.

 I couldn't resist posting that last one!