Month: February 2018

Hi everyone from Port St. Joe, Florida!

We moved here almost 2 weeks ago, we’re still in the panhandle, about 1 hour from our last spot in Carabelle Beach.  Port St. Joe is a nice little town, with a nice grocery store and a few shops and places to eat.  A little more going on here than Carabelle Beach, but still not very commercial.  No hotels, no high rises, but beautiful beaches and vacation homes on the shores.

The highlight of our stay here is the visit from Guy.  He was here for almost a week.  We took him to the airport this morning, and he has arrived back home to St. Paul, MN safely.  It was so great having him here, and he enjoyed the break from work and the weather back home.  Speaking of weather, it is finally seeming like Florida around here!  After several weeks of not so great weather, the last several days have been perfect.  High 70s by day, 50s at night, lots of sunshine and beautiful sunsets.  We took full advantage of the weather while Guy was here, we went to the beach every day, rented a pontoon boat one afternoon and rode around St. Joseph Bay, and ate tons of seafood.  Perfect!

Gerry is loving the beach life, and has made friends all up and down the beach.  We go to Cape San Blas for the beach, which is directly across the bay from the RV park, about 15 minutes by car.  He loves playing with Cora the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and he totally has a crush on Maude the Goldendoodle.  I have a picture of Maude below.  It’s funny to watch him prance and perform when she’s around!  The beach is beautiful and we walk 3 or 4 miles each day up and down the shore.

The pontoon boat was a great way to see the bay, and Gerry was very comfortable on the boat, as you’ll see from the pictures below.  The bay is very shallow in many areas, and Guy and Steve got out and walked around a lot.  We saw lots of Stingrays and Horseshoe crabs while we were on the boat.  We’ve seen a lot of Dolphins swimming along the shore, and we’ve seen Eagles several times while driving around in the area also.

This RV park is right on the shore of the bay, and has a small marina as part of the operation.  It’s not the nicest park we’ve stayed in, but we’ve seen worse too.  It’s been a good location and has a perfect view of the sunset over the water each night.  I’ve included some pictures below.  Everyone is very friendly and lots of nice doggies here too.  Several RVer’s here from Ohio, and most have been coming here for several years.

We leave here one week from tomorrow to head back home.  Can’t believe how fast time has gone by, and it sure feels good to have sunshine and warm weather.  But we’re looking forward to being back home for awhile, we miss family and friends!  We’re working on plans for our next big trip, we will leave mid-May.  We’re going to Nova Scotia and other points in eastern Canada, and the New England states – Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and possibly others.  We’ll also spend some time in the Finger Lakes region of NY and likely some time in Pennsylvania also.  It’s all still in the planning stages, so stay tuned!

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Hi again everyone!  We moved about 300 miles east to Carrabelle Beach, Florida a few days ago.  We’re here for a week, then we move one more time, to Port St. Joe, Florida which is about 55 miles from here.

We like our spot here in Carrabelle Beach, we’re right across the road from the beach.  We can see the ocean from our windows, when all the RVs are lined up just right!  The weather has been getting a little better, we’ve had several days in the 60s and still cool at night, in the upper 30s or low 40s.  Not bad!  We’ve been taking Gerry to the beach several times a day, they are very dog friendly here which is nice, since we couldn’t take him to the beach at our last place at all.  This part of Florida is very undeveloped, and they call it the “Forgotten Coast” and I can see why.  There’s no commercial development, no hotels, no condos, no shopping.  Some nice houses along the shore which are mostly empty right now.  We went to Tallahassee yesterday to find a good grocery store, which was over an hour drive.  But it was a nice day trip, Steve found a gym and we ran a few errands.  Otherwise, we’ve just been chilling and enjoying the beach and all the fresh seafood.  There’s lots of small fresh seafood “shacks” here and it’s all been good.  🙂

Before we left our last spot we went out to see the sunset on the beach and also the super moon that came out a few miles away over the bay.  I’ve put a few pictures below of that and also of our new beach.

Guy is coming to visit us next week, we’re excited to have him and I think he’s excited about getting out of the frozen tundra in Minnesota!  I will be sure to post an update about his visit.  We plan to go on a fishing charter…that should be interesting!

Thanks for the comments, we love hearing from you!  Stay warm!