Tuesday September 12th 2023

It was a very humid day without much wind. Combined with high temperature in the low nineties it was a very uncomfortable day. Late in the day into the evening there was the sound of thunder in the area with dark clouds and lightening on the horizon. Most of the storms formed east of here and moved east after they formed. It didn’t rain here.

Since I was so tired yesterday, I went to bed early last night. This morning I was up earlier than normal and took a walk around the park before breakfast. The campground was pretty empty last night. I counted seven occupied sites out of thirty in my loop. I haven’t checked the other loop of thirty campsites yet. The park staff has done some maintenance since my last visit in April. They have painted new site numbers on the pavement along the side of the park road and new gravel has been added to some of the sites. Currently they are doing some cement work on one of the pavilions in the day use area.

This was mostly a day to settle in and relax. I took two additional walks around various areas of the park during the day. The water level in Lake Manatee is a little higher than I’m used to seeing. The walkway onto the floating docks at the boat launch area are close to level rather than a walk down to the dock. There are warnings posted about possible blue green algae in the lake. That may be the reason I didn’t see anyone using the boat launch. Possibly it will be different when the weekend arrives.