We moved from Pennekamp to Long Key today. And this is what I get! The tide is just coming back in and it's getting dark, as you can see we are parked dead ON the beach. At high tide we're no more than 50 feet from the water. I'm really looking forward to every sunrise from now to May 3rd. Heard from our friend John Edwards that he's bringing his 17-foot Montgomery sailboat down this week. It'll be great to see and feed him before he takes off sailing the Keys.
Our trip down was uneventful. Except for the part where I grazed one traffic cone and knocked another over in a bridge construction zone. They really got those lanes too tight!
We pulled over on the Tea Table Relief and made lunch. What a way to live!
This may be the best campsite ever! Right now the wind is blowing around 20 knots. The sand is blowing about 2 feet off the beach and stings when it hits your legs. There's a few lightning flashes in the dark cloudy skies. It spit rain for 2 minutes. I talked to a campground host up in Pennekamp who'd traveled for the last two months all the way from Wyoming. She said that in that entire time she'd seen 4 hours of rain. This may also be the beginning of the driest 'rainy' season ever in South Florida.
One of the fun things about this is that all the preparation and thought that went into putting the camper and load together is working fine. We didn't do any packing last night and still got off the site in good order by 1300. I especially enjoyed loading the kayaks with Micky. We had very little trouble getting them up and tied down. Makes you feel good when the system works. And the air conditioner blows cold too!
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