Today is going to a hot one in northern Florida. So, we got an early start packing up the camper and pulling out of Little Talbot State Park and headed south for Cape Canaveral, Florida. We have reservation for only two night at Jetty Park, then we head for home and avoid the Memorial Day traffic. The campground was really filling up for the holiday rush.
Jetty Park is a county owned park located on the cape adjacent to Port Canaveral. The park also has a nice beach and a large fishing pier. From the beach, you can watch the ships go in and out of the Port. There is always a variety of things to see from this beach, but there are very few shells here. So, we spent most of our beach time watching the waves, the swimmers, the folks fishing from shore, the birds, and the ships. Not a bad way to spend the day!
This is the beach looking south towards Cocoa Beach and it's low tide time.
This is the fishing pier at Jetty Park
This is another shot of the fishing pier at Jetty Park. This shot looks very much like the fishing pier at Fort Clinch State Park. See my blog dated May 21, 2014.
This is the gambling ship making its second run for today.
After spending most of Friday on the beach, we decided to look for a nice restaurant for supper. We chose Fishlips because we liked the name, it was close by, and it has a second story balcony that has this view of Port Canaveral. This view is looking east towards the ocean.
This view is looking west where you can make out a docked cruise ship.
As we were eating. the captain of the cruse ship blew his horn and departed.
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"Enchantment of the Sea" is heading out to sea with eager passengers ready to party hardy!
We had a very nice meal at Fishlips, then decided to sight see and drove south on A1A into Cocoa Beach. Kitty and I stayed here many moons ago in a Holiday Inn right on the Ocean. Little did we know then, it would be more than thirty years before we'd return!
We could not believe how much Cocoa Beach has changed in thirty years. When we were here before it was a nice quaint small quiet town with only a few hotels and A1A was just a two lane road through town. Now the town extends for miles, A1A is a divided highway, and the old Holiday Inn has moved to a different location. I guess we call that progress? We still like Cocoa Beach, but we like the old version better!
We, it's time to get ready to depart in the morning and head back to Okeechobee.
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