Blogs from Carrabelle, Florida, United States, North America

blog 02-03-20 Wakulla Springs The weather forecast is bleak later in the week so now is the time to get to the places I wanted to visit. Wakulla Springs has been inhabited by humans for nearly 15,000 yrs starting with Paleo-Indian times. The spring is a first magnitude spring with a flow of 200-300 Million gallons per day and forms the Wakulla River. It was once so clear that glass bottom boats were a regular attraction but now the waters are too cloudy to see more than 20 ft. below. The water flows from a cave connected to the FL aquifer system and 190 ft into that cave mastodon bones have been seen. The spring was purchased by Edward Bell in 1934 and developed as an attraction focusing on the preservation of wildlife and surrounding habitat. ... read more

As I said in the previous blog we really scored at this campground, our view is amazing and everything is so nice here. We drove through town, purchased some bait, visited the bottle house, the world's smallest police station which was a telephone booth (see pics), and saw Crooked River Lighthouse from the outside. Once we returned we all went to the beach to hang out and fish. The sand was surprisingly white and powdery. The best part is since it is a private beach you are able to bring your pet. Daisy was ready to come home at dark since the bugs were driving her crazy, but Nate could not bring himself to leave the beach. He caught so many nice size fish and a sting ray too, but unfortunately none were keepers. Nate finally ... read more

We left Daytona on Tuesday morning and headed directly into some really bad weather. It looked like our window of opportunity for travel would be from late morning into the evening and that's just about how it worked out. We made the 5 hour run to Carrabelle Beach under fast moving clouds, gusty winds and a few passing showers, got set up in our new site on the Gulf of Mexico, got dinner over and sat down to watch the storms on TV. It hit here a little later, around 2:00 am. After seeing pictures of an RV park in Louisiana get torn to shreds by a tornado it was a little unnerving to feel the camper rocking back and forth on its four stilts and four tires while the national weather service had us under ... read more

We dawdled around Tuesday morning, waiting for winds to die down and temps to climb. We finally headed out late in the morning. We went south on the marked channel, then went through Government Cut on St. George Island. The sun was shining and the water was beautiful in the Gulf of Mexico. Dolphins swam by to greet us and the winds were mostly blocked by the island. We anchored not far off the beach by St. George Island State Park, then had Sara and Trevor raft up after dropping their stern anchor. We hoped this would keep us facing the waves instead of facing the wind and taking the waves on our beam. It worked for a while, but after we finished supper, the waves got bigger and we really started rocking. Both boats were ... read more