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Published: September 20th 2017
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blog 09-19-17 Ocean City to Long Beach
Yes, we are sticking to the ocean. Last night it poured rain all night and we woke up to puddles and the ground feeling like a sponge, soft and gushy. There was one last trip to the beach to be had and there was sea foam remenents all the way up to the grasses. The ocean looked very riled up and it was quite noisy but was calm in comparison to the Jersey coast.
Watson and I got back to the camper in time to see Ginnie and the boys leaving for their walk so we did some things to get ready to leave. It is moving day and we are going to Long Beach about 2 1/2 hrs down rt 101.
We left around 10:30 am and found the nearest gas station which was a small Ma and Pa place named Gull. After filling up our gigantic tank the lady at the counter gave us 4 life savers and a little pocket flash light as a gift to the motorhome. Really nice lady.
We headed south on 109 until it intersected with 101 then we took that south too.
It wound around hill and dale and up over small mountains along the coast. We saw beautiful scenes of lush trees, some newly harvested, some newly planted, some robusk in mid life. There were farms too. Or ranches I should say. They had cows in the field but they were not milk cows, but cows for meat market so I guess that classifies them as ranchers.
We kept seeing the word slough as in Peterson Slough, Jameson Slough and that set us to wondering what that was all about. So we googled the word and it means "swamp" or "be rid of" so we took it to mean a way for the water to leave the swamp, and that's what it seemed to be. A waterway draining a swampy area.
There were signs along the highway saying tsunami evacuation route and there was an arrow to a dirt road up a hill. I guess up any hill is a good idea.
The campground was down this little back road just a few blocks from Long Beach and we checked in and went in search of the perfect campsite. This campground has sewer in every site but the
electric hook up is strange. If you get an even numbered site the hook ups are all on the left side of your motorhome which is where they should be. If you get an odd number site the hook ups will be on your right so you have to run the hose, electric cable and sewer line under your motorhome, which is fine if you have enough length for all of them. The other wrinkle is that you share an electric post with the camper next to you and if they are plugged into the 30 amp outlet you have to use the 50 amp. Well, if you are a camper like mine I only have 30 amp so 50 is too much, you have to get an adapter to use it. It gets complicated.
Thank goodness we were able to find an even number site with nobody else around us so we didn't have to share the electric box. OH, another twist, the campground is half flooded. They had so much rain yesterday and last night that finding a dry site was almost impossible. All things considered we did really well. Our site is on the end of
one of 2 rows and we were concerned about traffic going around the corner but it isn't an issue.
Ginnie was walking the boys tonight when they encountered a group of 6 people walking to the beach. They all stopped and stood in a group until Ginnie talked to them and told them that the dogs were friendly and actually theropy dogs so they loved to be petted. You could just see the group melt around the dogs and there was lots of petting and laughter.
We walked the dogs and had happy hour outside as long as the sun was shinning on us. The storm last night brought some really brisk air with it so we were forced inside to have dinner.
We have not formalized a plan for tomorrow yet but I'm sure it will be something good. There is a lot to explore here and the Lewis and Clark National Park tops the list.
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