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18 02 2008

Rv Adventures in Green Cove Springs Florida

Posted by: onceuponatime in Florida, Green Cove Springs, RV Travel, tags: camping, florida, Green Cove Springs, RV Travel

Green Cove Springs
Adventures in Green Cove Springs Florida
Just south of Jacksonville Florida, and West of Saint Augustine is the town of Green Cove Springs on the Saint Johns River.

The Saint Johns is a river running north through central Florida.

As I begin my full time RVing experience in the Oyster Can of Adventure this place is to be an important factor.

Yep, My mail forwarding service is located in Green Cove Springs with the nice folks over at Saint Brendans Isle.

I took a pic of a sign in Spring park that has a bit more history on green Cove Springs, click the thumb to read it.

Now it is obvious that the town of Green Cove Springs is tied with a heavy-duty sailor knot to the Mariner culture of the Saint Johns River.

The Port there is huge. You can see all sorts of marine services, and huge marinas just out of town and mongo river boats , barges and more docked at the Green Cove Springs Port.

I fancied a number of of nice large sail boats in a marine storage yard near the port. As well as watching the river boats, the floating casinos and such that were docked at the port.

Now Green Cove Springs is the far most point these large ships or the sailing vessels can go when traveling South up river, as the Shands bridge that crosses the Saint Johns just has a 45ft clearance.

The mineral springs flow into the town pool and continue into the Saint Johns down a spring run.
Spring Park in down-town Green Cove Springs has a handy fishing peir so you can toss your line in the Saint John’s waters.
The Green Cove Springs Town Dock also features boat slips where you can tie up and check out town. You can dock here 48 hours for a small fee.

Clay County Theatre
This old Vintage Movie theatre reminded me of one in my home town. It is a working movie theatre. Now, If it only had a theatre company to take it over now and then, I’d felt right at home.

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18 02 2008

Camping at Wright Lake in the Apalachicola National Forest

Posted by: onceuponatime in Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, RV Travel, tags: Apalachicola National Forest, camping, florida, travel, Wright Lake

RVing at Wright Lake was Ribbiting Performance (ribbit ribbit!!)

The curtain rises on Wright Lake with a soothing intro, that of lots of frogs singing their songs. Its a lovely little lake in the Apalachicola wilderness.
The 26 foot Oyster Can of Adventure fit just fine into one of the very shaded spaces near the lake, and 8 bucks bought a site with water only, and a nearby bath house. So the Oyster can went into Inverter and fans mode with lp gas running the fridge.
But be warned , If you come out to these boonies you just might croak, just to fit in with the neighbors that is.. After the Sun takes its bow, with a stylish exit, and the moon caresses the waters, this lake comes alive with the singing of the night. Frogs sing the lead and katydids are on percussion. The rest of natures night instruments chime in regularly to add to the night time wonderment.

For a lover of nature, this is a great campsite, in some ways for what the camp site did not have.

There was no motor-coach of mongo hugeness 2 inches from my door so huge that there is a convention center in one of the slide outs
there was not 1000 screaming preteen-vermin swarming though my campsite.

The only real annoyance was the yellow files or horse flies but Deep Woods Off bug repellent helped with that problem. I had the place almost to myself as there was only the very friendly camp host, the camp doggies, and a tenter. Yep, that was it.
I have here a pic of me trying to “out tacky” the birds and flora while I enjoyed rambling around on the bicycle of adventure and walking, invading random trails.
The lake was a bit shallow due to the Florida drought, but it was at least there and was a decent lake still, and it was wet, so I even went for a dip/wade in the lake swimming area. and didn’t get eaten by anything (though these cute little minnows were looking at me funny).
There is a 4 mile + trail for the very adventurous, but I just did the short one that goes around the lake and went on a few random bike jaunts.

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