Saturday September 23rd 2023

Today is the first day of fall and it actually felt like it. Fall in Florida is characterized by cooler nights, a little lower high temperature for the day and a little less humidity. It was in the low seventies this morning. Some areas in the region may have been in the sixties. The high temperature for the day was in the upper eighties and I didn’t notice the humidity. It was a very nice day if you stayed in the shade away from the direct sunshine. Fall isn’t here to stay. The forecast calls for the summer weather pattern to return next week.

It turned into a lazy day hanging out around my RV home. With the exception of the fifteen or so sites that are closed for electrical work, the campground was close to full. The day use area was also hosting a couple of sizable groups. Even though there were a lot of people around it still seemed to have a very laid back atmosphere.

I took three and a half walks around various areas of the park. The half walk occurred when my path was blocked by a tow truck and a box truck along the campground loop. They seemed to be using the tow truck as a transport service to move their trailer off the site. How the box truck fit into the production is unknown. It was a Home Depot rental truck. Rather than waiting for the vehicles to make room or bushwhacking my way through the woods, I backtracked around the loop road to my site. It seemed a little rude to provide an audience to the chaos.

All the people around the lake kept the birds away. The egrets and herons all stayed away. I only saw one strange little seagull watching the world from the top of a piling that holds the floating dock at the boat launch. It seemed impervious to the activity of the boat launch area. Even the sunset tonight wasn’t particularly photogenic. There weren’t enough clouds in the sky.