The kids were waiting to hide from Coley.
Keeg on the beach- just chillin'- he is hungry all of the time!
The shuttle launch facility - visible from our campground.
Back to the land of wifi service. We enjoyed our stay at the state park on Anastasia Island. It was as beautiful as I had heard. Yesterday we got up early and hit the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine. It was built by the Spanish in 1672 to protect the settlement from anyone trying to invade. It was pretty neat. The construction was amazing. The chambers had these high rounded ceilings. It was impressive. The fort was built from coquina- a special kind of limestone that is cut from Anastasia Island. You can see the millions of tiny sea shells that make up each segment. Then they burned oysters and mixed it with lime to make mortar. They used everything available from the environment. We stopped at a place on the coast for lunch, then we took the kids to Marineland to see dolphins. It was as cheesy as it sounds, but it cost us less than $20 for us all to get in. Of course, you could pay $75 to get close to a dolphin, and the price went up from there. We also went to Fort Matanzas ( means murder) and took a National Parks boat out to it. It was an outpost for the Fort in St. Augustine. The men came out for a month at a time to watch the river for invaders trying to take the rear approach into the city. It was very interesting. We came back and hit the beach last night. We were eager to try the new boogie boards. Keegan was excited until he went under. He told me he did not know this was something that was going to get water up his nose. He was finished with it after that, and he handed his Spiderman board off to me. Coley figured out the proper technique and became quite the boarder. I had a few difficulties. At one point Coley said he looked over and saw my feet sticking straight up out of the water, then my board popped up. After that happened twice, I called it a day. I had taken in my quota of salt water.
At one point Coley was in shoulder deep water catching a wave, and he looked over and caught site of a dorsal fin. It turned out to be a dolphin. We watched it swim down parallel to the coast. We have had a great time. We might hit the beach one more time down around Cape Canaveral before we go into Disney on Sunday, or we might just hang out at the park pool. We are spending a couple of days in a county park in Titusville and going to the Kennedy Space Center and hang out over the 4th. The kids are excited about Disney, but they have enjoyed seeing all of the other places we have been. I think Florida is a place we will return to. I have tried to talk Coley into stopping in Destin on the way home, but I have not had any luck!
Today we have just hung out and drove the couple of hours down the coast to Titusville. We had some seafood for dinner at a local place, and it was good. We finally got Keeg to eat popcorn shrimp. He loved it. Coley has the kids at the pool trying to wear them out, and I am waiting on my 2 loads of laundry to dry. I had a load that smelled like the Atlantic (yuck!), and it would not dry in this humidity. Since the laundry is convenient, I just tossed in everything that was dirty. The next RV we get will have washer and dryer hookups! We are off to the space center tomorrow. We are all looking forward to that. The local fireworks display is just across the road from out camp, so we are trying to find the best place to see them. The hammock “shady place” that we are staying in, blocks the view of everything!
At one point Coley was in shoulder deep water catching a wave, and he looked over and caught site of a dorsal fin. It turned out to be a dolphin. We watched it swim down parallel to the coast. We have had a great time. We might hit the beach one more time down around Cape Canaveral before we go into Disney on Sunday, or we might just hang out at the park pool. We are spending a couple of days in a county park in Titusville and going to the Kennedy Space Center and hang out over the 4th. The kids are excited about Disney, but they have enjoyed seeing all of the other places we have been. I think Florida is a place we will return to. I have tried to talk Coley into stopping in Destin on the way home, but I have not had any luck!
Today we have just hung out and drove the couple of hours down the coast to Titusville. We had some seafood for dinner at a local place, and it was good. We finally got Keeg to eat popcorn shrimp. He loved it. Coley has the kids at the pool trying to wear them out, and I am waiting on my 2 loads of laundry to dry. I had a load that smelled like the Atlantic (yuck!), and it would not dry in this humidity. Since the laundry is convenient, I just tossed in everything that was dirty. The next RV we get will have washer and dryer hookups! We are off to the space center tomorrow. We are all looking forward to that. The local fireworks display is just across the road from out camp, so we are trying to find the best place to see them. The hammock “shady place” that we are staying in, blocks the view of everything!
Keeg and a fake alligator- he is upset that he has not found one at any of our campsites yet.
Coley thought it was really cool that he was driving the "big red truck" on the beach.
Keeg and the dolphin-he was very upset with us that we would not pay for him to have a dolphin "encounter"!
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