St. Andrews State Park

We stayed in St. Andrews State Park from January 6th thru the 13th. We have really enjoyed the State Park for all the wildlife. We often saw up to 20 deer a day as we drove thru the park. One small fawn that still had spots, just kept munching next to the road as Joyce talked to it. 

Joyce always had a hard time of the early wake-up all 36 years of working at Bendix/Allied-Signal/Honeywell. Now that she doesn't have to arise so early, she is usually awake by 6am. The tides soon fascinated her as she'd see the low tide in early mornings. The photo of sailboat below shows the tide at the lowest we saw it the week we were at St. Andrews. Joyce now has the website saved for low/high tide times.

Although state parks are cheaper than the independent rv parks, the main disadvantage is most do not have sewer connections at each camp site. They do have "dump stations" that are free for use, but you have to drive the rv up to it. Randy had talked with a full-timer at Pella Iowa last year and found he'd used a waste tote. So Randy bought a tank & though it's a thankless job it's easier than raising jacks, putting in slides etc. every 3 or 4 days. He doesn't gripe about the job as the beauty of camping in the parks make up for it.

Early morning view out of the RV, the water looked as smooth as glass.

Kingfisher

Great Egret

Low tide left the beached sailboat completely out of the water.

Randy was amazed at the barnacles completely covering the sailboat's keel.

We attended service at St. Andrew Baptist Church on January 8th. 

One evening we went out to Gator Lake & watched the Snowy Egrets start to roost.

Luckily it was catch & release so Randy couldn't bring it back to the RV.   :)

Black Scoter

The Farmer's Market at St. Andrews was pretty thin due to the chilly weather.
Joyce felt so sorry for one ill-dressed vendor that she took her Hot Hands paks.

Randy wanted this pic for Matt & Len, as it looked like the boat they fished in while at St. Kitts.

We were amazed at all the different style boats in the marinas.

We had the beach pretty much to ourselves on windy chilly days.

Florida's State bird- Mockingbird

Blue Heron

Small fawn by the road

Randy says "it's a sh**** job but someone has to do it"

Sunset across the marsh area.