Blogs from St. George Island, Florida, United States, North America

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This part of the trip is all about sand dunes and oysters and meeting up with Dave & Barb who are coming from where we are heading - New Orleans, Nashville, and points homeward! Leaving (Carrabelle) town, our timing wasn’t right for lunch at “The Fisherman’s Wife’s” cute little red lunch cart or at funky and delish Two Al’s. We posted previous blogs on Carrabelle’s WW II museum and reference to how infantry was trained here for the Normandy Landing and how POW’s from Germany were incarcerated in a work camp/ prison here. Interesting history! We made a provision stop at the Carrabelle IGA where they sell fishing poles and tackle along with milk, eggs and Tide. We made our way along Route 98 to Eastpoint which surely has seen better days. A handsome arched bridge ... read more
Dawn Dawning on St. George Island Beach
Barb Beach Walking at Dawn
Gonna Be a Rosy Day

North America » United States » Florida » St. George Island January 29th 2010

We left St. Augustine and drove through Palatka, Gainesville and Chiefland on our way to Manatee Springs SP. It's a pretty park, lots of trees and we were greeted by two small deer in the campground. The springs were not as colorful as those at Rainbow Springs, but they had a nice boardwalk than ran down the spring run to the Suwannee River. We saw lots of alligator gar in the spring run and the Suwannee River was high due to recent rains. We saw no manatees. Thursday morning we headed to St. George Island after stopping in Perry to get my prescriptions refilled. St. George Island was quite beautiful with white sand beaches and wonderful dunes. Again the gorgeous beach was mostly deserted. The temperature was quite pleasant in the afternoon, but got cool in ... read more
Manatee Springs SP
Suwannee River
Cape St. George  Lighthouse




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