Mardi Gras

The weather turned out great for the parade—sunny and in 70’s. In the morning Gulf Shores had their parade. We found out that in the afternoon they were also going to be in the Orange Beach parade. We left on our bikes and road the trails to OB. It was the best decision. If we drove, it would have been almost impossible to find a place to park. After the parade, cars were trapped because of all the places people parked where they were not supposed to.

We arrived about 45 minutes before the start at 2p, but had to wait about another 45+ before the parade reached us. We had a great spot because we waited by an opening that went into a parking lot and while cars were going in a policeman had his vehicle parked to the side and he was checking the cars. He later moved it to block the drive and allowed us to stand where his cop car was. We ended up talking to him the time we waited. He was very nice and interesting.

The following are a few pics I tried to get. The sun was in my way as they came towards me. Also, it was hard to take pictures while you are getting hit by beads, Moon Pies, candy, toys, etc.

This is some

Gulf State Park Campsite

Here are a couple of pics of our campsite 413 for the month of February.

It is a nice big lot with no one on the couch side. Across from us are the primitive sites. They are back in the woods so we pretty much don’t see anyone. We are on the main road (Racoon Road) a few sites down from Opossum Road on the north side. That information is for Eric in case you want to see our site on a website map app. Ron and Linda are on 376 on Opossum Road which is behind us parallel with the trail which is right behind them.

Cape San Blas

Finally sending a post from our time at St. Joe Penisula State Park. Phone and internet was spotting or not at all. I didn’t feel good the time we were there, but feeling fine now. I think I had bronchitis. Never seemed to stop coughing.

This park has two different campground loops. One was in the pines and the other in the palms. We camped in the latter.

We were just over a sand dune to the beach. There was a short boardwalk there. We walked the beach quite a long way down the beach to the boardwalk to the other campground. From there we walked the boardwalk that connects the two back. The sand was so nice and so easy to walk on.

The last night before we left we walked the boardwalk to the other campground and beach back just before sunset. It was a beautiful night. One guy was out with his kayak. When the sun went down, no one clapped. Guess they don’t know that tradition in Florida!

Now in Gulf Shores at the Park. There were so many coming in at once on the first and we all had to wait until 4pm to check in. It took forever. Some ladies rushed up ahead of us from their rigs back further. (We were all in line back down the entrance road.) They got their check in and couldn’t get into the park until we got ours because Ron and Carl had them blocked. DeJongs and us both have a nice spot. We are a little ways away but not that bad. Yesterday was sunny with a north wind but not too bad. We each set up our camps. At night we went to Mo’s Barbecue. Today turned cloudy expecting rain tomorrow morning. We rode our bikes today through the entire campground. Did not see anyone we know.