On the way we stopped at Gainesville to break up the trip. Naturally we stayed at our favorite campground, Sam's Club!! It was hot and we had to run the AC a lot comfortable. The next day, Sunday, we drove about an hour to get to the Suwanee River park and toured around it some. There was a lot of Stephen Foster stuff there and we got to see the actual Suwanee River.
Since our reservation as St Andrews was not until Monday we stopped in Tallahassee Sunday night at where else but Sam's Club!
We arrived at St Andrews an hour earlier than expected since they are in the Central Time Zone. Not a problem though because the park was not very full at all. We had a nice pull-thru spot and a good clear shot at the Direct TV satellite. We were in view of the Lagoon and it was a nice quiet park.
The SCUBA diving is done at the inlet from the Gulf to the lagoon and has a rock jetty that makes a large wading and swimming pool. The diving is done on the inlet side across the jetty from the pool area. Since it is an inlet there are currents that you have to be aware of when the tides are coming in or going out. The currents can be strong and it best to dive at high slack tide or low slack tide when the currents are not there or are weak.
I did a lot of snorkeling as I did not find anyone to dive with and I did not care to SCUBA dive solo where I had not dived before. The snorkeling was good as I saw a decent sized sea turtle on two occasions, a crab and plenty of bait-sized fish. the bait fish were so plentiful they actually blocked vision and I had to try to chase them away.There were a good number of other fish also.
We ate in most of the time but one night we went to a spot on the beach called Pineapple Willies and split a dinner. It was good fresh seafood and for one dinner it was not unreasonable in cost. However we each had the house specialty drink and they were more than our one dinner!! We did get to keep the cups though. WOW!!!
While on the way to dinner we saw this one large "fish" and Carol nearly got swallowed by it.
The area was not very active since it was after Labor Day and not a week end. It seemed there were a number of places that either close for the season or maybe forever!!
We were scheduled to depart on Sunday SEP 19 but decided to leave on Saturday and take two days to drive back home. Before we left on Saturday morning I went to the jetty and since it was the weekend there were plenty of divers in or going in to dive. I counted at least 15 at one time.
The drive back was uneventful and we realized that for our entire week we did not have any ran at all. Naturally we stopped at Sam's in Gainesville on the way back.
The week of rest helped Carol's back and she was feeling quite good by the time we got home. However we decided that it was not a good idea for her to bowl this coming season since it was a real problem for her back last year. My right thumb is getting some arthritis in it and has a spasmodic pain at time and I may not be able to handle a bowling ball so I decided to also forgo bowling.
I guess we are getting old.
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