The cold
front has made its way down here. Temperatures dipped into the 40’s last night,
great for sleeping but it makes for an interesting situation in the morning to
see who gets up first to turn the furnace on and start the coffee.
Today is
laundry day but we don’t need to leave the park to do it. This is the largest
state park we have ever been to, besides the normal state park activities this
one has the pool and splash pool, activity building, Segway rentals, beach,
golf course, boat and canoe rental, bike rental, volley ball courts etc. You
can camp for a day, week, a month or the entire winter season, they have a lot
of snow birds that spend the entire winter here.
Gulf Shores State Park Laundromat
Out the back door of the Laundromat
Out the side door of the laundromat
Don't have to say it twice
State Parks inland lake
It has
really started warming up quickly so the plan for the day, after laundry, is to
drive to Pensacola Florida and visit the Gulf Island National Sea Shore as well
as one of the most haunted places along the Gulf Coast, the Pensacola
Lighthouse.
First stop was Gulf Island National Sea Shore. Because it is part of the National Park System our admission was free with our America Beautiful Card (geezer card). By the time we arrived it had warmed into the mid 70’s but without a cloud in the sky the sun seemed much warmer. I was again surprised that we had most of the beach to ourselves. No complaints however. We had a picnic lunch and Chris searched for more shells, it was a great afternoon.
Sea shore road
Few people on the beach today
I think we will like it here
OK Pick a spot
A few people fishing
No neighbors this way
Looking for shells
Payload
After the
beach we drove over to Pensacola Naval Air Station to see the Lighthouse. There
is a large Aviation Museum on base but we just went through an air Museum in
Mobile and it was getting late so we opted out of visiting.
