Wednesday August 2nd 2023

Today’s weather was the type I’d like to see repeated every day during the Florida summer. The temperature peaked in the low nineties, the humidity wasn’t extreme, there was a gentle consistent breeze and the thunderstorms were extremely scattered. As long as you weren’t hanging out in the direct sun it was a fine day.

I sent some time this afternoon along the north bank of the St. Johns River. There are a parks, roadside turnouts and boat launches along route A1A before it reaches Little Talbot Island. There were people out in small boats and kayaks to watch, but I didn’t see the wildlife I was hoping to see. Getting there I drove by many of the big facilities that make up the port of Jacksonville. The road intersects with A1A when the route arrives on the north bank of the St Johns River after passage on a ferry. It might be interesting to take the ferry over the Mayport on the south bank sometime, but driving around is probably easier.

On my way back to my RV home, I stopped at Walmart to restock my grocery supply. My visit was late enough in the afternoon that I caught the surge of after work shoppers. The store also showed the result of a full day of shopping. Many of the shelves needed to be restocked. I was still able to get what I needed, but occasionally I had to do a little extra effort. Getting a couple of gallons of drinking water took a little climbing and reaching to get the containers from the back of an upper shelf. At the checkout I was behind a lady that was stocking up on back to school supplies. She must have been a teacher or school administrator. The purchase included notebooks, ruled paper tablets, pencils and other things I couldn’t identify. The quantity was probably close to 100 of each item. The cashier started counting each item before scanning it and ended up just assuming there were the same number of each item.

The RV park is in its quiet mid week mode. There isn’t any real activity during the day and in the evening there is only a small amount as people return from work or whatever. The geese continue to have free range around the park except when a park employee decides it is time to harass them with a golf cart. Then the peace is disrupted as the geese honk a lot and take flight. The other disruption to the quiet today was the Florida Air National Guard. They were busy taking off with full afterburners overhead several times today.