Wednesday June 7th 2023

The day began with a light rain on the roof of my RV home about 7:30 this morning. There was no wind and it wasn’t heavy enough to come in the open windows, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. An hour later the actual rain was over, but it continued to spit moisture off and on most of the morning. During the afternoon the sun attempted to make an appearance. The temperature peaked in the mid eighties.

The entertainment in the park today was a tree service. They were here to cut down several trees. One tree was clearly almost dead. The others looked healthier, but may have been in poor condition as well. One of the trees was very close to a site with a trailer on it. The bucket truck had its bucket over the trailer to work on the tree. I am very glad that wasn’t my site. They still have work to do picking up the dropped big sections of the trees. Maybe they will be back tomorrow too finish up and possible take more down.

I’ve seen tree work in campgrounds quiet a few times in the course of my Rambling Road Trip. One reason is that the trees need to be kept cut high enough to allow thirteen and fourteen foot clearance motorhomes and fifth wheel trailers to pass under. The park also needs to make sure that old or damaged trees don’t fall on equipment or worst yet people. The most elaborate tree work I have seen in a campground was last February in Fort Wilderness. The staff closed two sites for two nights to provide plenty of time for a service to cut down a tree that was more than three feet in diameter. In addition to bucket trucks one of the tree service workers free climbed part of the tree with spikes and straps. I wasn’t there when the big sections came down, but I bet it made a bit of noise. Everything was cleaned up and gone by the time I returned from the theme parks that night.