St Augustine Florida

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

It's time to leave Skidaway Island State Park.  We really enjoyed our stay here.  The campground was great and Savannah is a very interesting town with lots of history and charm.  We are headed 180 miles south on I95 to St Augustine Florida.

We arrived at the Stagecoach R-V Park around mid afternoon.  This campground has 71 sites, mostly pull through sites, all with full hook ups.  The campground roads are gravel and the sites are grass.  We were all hooked up just minutes before the rain started.  The rain lasted a good 20 minutes, and typical Florida, the sun came out and you couldn't tell it had just rained.

We have been to St Augustine many times when we lived in Jacksonville several years ago and we were able to find the lighthouse and fort without using the GPS.  Now that we knew for sure what we wanted to see in the morning, we headed back to the campground stopping at a nearby Cracker Barrel for supper.


Thursday, October 18, 2012

Since we are both fighting colds and had trouble sleeping last night, we decided to shorten our agenda for today.  The first stop is St Augustine Light Station.  This light station was established in 1874.

 

This view of the light is from South Ponte Verda Beach a few miles away.

 

Next, we drove by Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.  We didn't stop here since we had seen this fort years ago and we were feeling the affects of our colds.  So, Kitty, looking like a typical tourist, took these drive by shots.

 

 

Driving a few miles north, we stopped at South Ponte Verda Beach to relax and enjoy the ocean for a while.

 

 

 

Here's a short video of the beach.

 

 

 

Tomorrow morning we leave St Augustine and will arrive at our destination for the next few months, Ancient Oaks RV Park in Okeechobee, Florida, where we will join our old friends Randy and Debbie, Barry and Susan.  We have been looking forward to this since we made the reservations back in May.  Wow, what an adventure we've had getting to this point.  It's hard to believe we are almost there.  Please keep checking our blog as we plan to have much more fun in the sunshine state to share with you!