Friday April 21st 2023

Add a little bit of humidity and some wind out of a more southerly direction to yesterday’s weather and you get today’s. It was a generally sunny day with a high temperature in the upper half of the eighties. According to the TV weather talkers there were thunderstorms to the east this afternoon. Tomorrow is forecast to have more thunderstorm potential in the afternoon and next week has a very summer like weather pattern with plenty of afternoon and evening storms. The over two months of a dry weather pattern seems to be coming to an end.

When I went to bed last night I planned to be very active today. A visit to Disney’s EPCOT this afternoon was part of my plan, but this morning everything changed. I was dragging. Yesterday was a travel day with all the accompanied activity and tension. I needed a recovery day before dealing with the crowds of a theme park. I finished my setup tasks around my RV home and got reacquainted with the RV Resort.

After hurricane Ian in September I read that part of this resort was flooded, but I didn’t see any signs of flooding today. The only related thing of note was the water level in the creek that passes through the campground. It was higher than it was last year. I suspect the water level is artificially controlled since there was only a trickle on one side of a culvert passing under a campground road and a filled channel on the other side. The filled channel was enough water to be home to a small alligator. I thought I was through with them after leaving Myakka River State Park, but there was a young three footer here.

The campground seems to be a little more occupied this year than last year. There is an interesting mixture of long term and short term residents. In the long term category there are some standard snowbirds, some general long term residents and some sites that seem to be used as a vacation homes near the theme parks. It is also odd to see sites with lawn furniture, awnings, storage boxes and miscellaneous hookup equipment with no RV. Did they go away for the weekend?