last day in St. George
Thursday, February 21
Yup! The weatherman was right. Very overcast and feeling like rain; temperature is 15C. We’re off to Aligator Point as I said. #98 and then hang a right at 370 going to Bald State Park & Lighthouse Point. We find the perfect public access as described by a fellow beach walker yesterday. Lots of shells and sponges, even better no signs re: dogs. I take just one picture down the shoreline before we leave with very, very wet, but not really smelly dogs despite both of them having rolled in unknown substances.
About 5 min. down the road, the heavens open up. We stop for lunch at the Tinbucto (correct spelling) resturant where I have oyster chowder; and yes they are local.
Back home I take another walk behind our trailer to visit these wonderful orchid-like flowers. Several attempts later I have a few photos I am pleased with. Then I take a last hike to the ocean where a park volunteer is fishing in vain. From him I learn how to find oysters and hear about when a 5` shark encircled a friend of his while fishing in waders on the bay side. As the story goes, his friend cut loose his fish catch and made a run for it never to return to fishing in waders again. Should one should swim on the Gulf side? to which he replies that he has caught several sand sharks, but nothing to worry.
We end the day with a 30 minute session of hooking up the trailer. The difficulty this time is that when the car is backed up to the requisite 18`` in order to “observe the angle`` the front wheels are still on the pavement. Toward the end of this process our neighbour who now drives a bus (former owner of 2 Airstreams) approaches to help. Fortunately by then we have it all in hand. He is anxious to share his RV towing experiences, including not one, but two Airstreams. I’ll quit at this in the vein of ‘you had to be there to appreciate the story’. PS After items such as the canopy etc. are taken care of in prep for an early departure, we settle into the trailer to enjoy shrimp & dip with the local news before dinner. Yet another weather advisory. Seems any TV channel can be pre-empted to deliver the latest weather warning - Franklin County, that’s us. We step into action and collapse the dog pens and store various carpets etc. It’s now well past the time this storm should have hit. We have seen only 3 lightning streaks. It would appear to be yet another false alarm for us anyway.
Yup! The weatherman was right. Very overcast and feeling like rain; temperature is 15C. We’re off to Aligator Point as I said. #98 and then hang a right at 370 going to Bald State Park & Lighthouse Point. We find the perfect public access as described by a fellow beach walker yesterday. Lots of shells and sponges, even better no signs re: dogs. I take just one picture down the shoreline before we leave with very, very wet, but not really smelly dogs despite both of them having rolled in unknown substances.
About 5 min. down the road, the heavens open up. We stop for lunch at the Tinbucto (correct spelling) resturant where I have oyster chowder; and yes they are local.
Back home I take another walk behind our trailer to visit these wonderful orchid-like flowers. Several attempts later I have a few photos I am pleased with. Then I take a last hike to the ocean where a park volunteer is fishing in vain. From him I learn how to find oysters and hear about when a 5` shark encircled a friend of his while fishing in waders on the bay side. As the story goes, his friend cut loose his fish catch and made a run for it never to return to fishing in waders again. Should one should swim on the Gulf side? to which he replies that he has caught several sand sharks, but nothing to worry.
We end the day with a 30 minute session of hooking up the trailer. The difficulty this time is that when the car is backed up to the requisite 18`` in order to “observe the angle`` the front wheels are still on the pavement. Toward the end of this process our neighbour who now drives a bus (former owner of 2 Airstreams) approaches to help. Fortunately by then we have it all in hand. He is anxious to share his RV towing experiences, including not one, but two Airstreams. I’ll quit at this in the vein of ‘you had to be there to appreciate the story’. PS After items such as the canopy etc. are taken care of in prep for an early departure, we settle into the trailer to enjoy shrimp & dip with the local news before dinner. Yet another weather advisory. Seems any TV channel can be pre-empted to deliver the latest weather warning - Franklin County, that’s us. We step into action and collapse the dog pens and store various carpets etc. It’s now well past the time this storm should have hit. We have seen only 3 lightning streaks. It would appear to be yet another false alarm for us anyway.
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