NBNC>Florida: Thursday, January 2, 2014

Tri-colored Heron

It is fortuitous that Dave keeps updated with the many college bowl games because this morning he saw that the Orange Bowl is being hosted in Miami tomorrow evening; which caused us to wonder why in the world would we place ourselves in the middle of ten more million people traveling southbound. So we decided to stay one more day at Jetty Park, and the campground is quite hospitable. 

On this pleasant day we chose to drive down the coast to Long Point Park in Melbourne. We have always enjoyed the A1A drive; the coastalscapes of the Atlantic and Indian and Banana Rivers, seashore towns scattered along the coastline with homes that were probably built in the 1950s to ocean-mansions. Passing by Patrick Air Force we saw some helicopters executing touch-n-goes. 

We arrived at Long Point in hopes of seeing Dave’s Canadian friend, whom we camped next to last year, but unfortunately we missed each other.  We leisurely began our return to camp after stopping at Publix for fresh fruit and veggies and Lowe’s for “stuff”.  The weather was still quite enjoyable so we grabbed our chairs and our new year’s bubbly and copped a squat at the jetty to watch the cruise ships navigate their way to the sea. 

 

We finished off the evening with dinner and the peace of knowing we won’t have to battle the masses on the roads tomorrow.