3/24/07 The Forgotten Coast

We're heading north on our way to Texas to get the residency thing out of the way. Our friend Karen, from Michigan, was adamant that we take the route along the coast as we traveled north. Are we ever glad we listened to her! It was just a gorgeous ride.
Our view as we drove up the coast.....

WHAT A VIEW!

We tried to make reserva-tions for St. Joseph's State Park, with Karen's help, (thank heavens for cell phones) but they were full due to spring break. Uh-oh, we're hoping this isn't going to be a problem.

We drove further north to Mexico Beach and pulled into a little campground just across the street from the Gulf. How convenient! Yes, they had a spot for us. We decided to stay three nights here. It is definitely a "no frills" campground but with the Gulf of Mexico right our doorstep we didn't think we'd be spending too much time in the campground anyway. They did offer cable TV and WiFi at our site so that worked for us!

After getting set up we went for a ride to learn the lay of the land. First stop, the fishing pier!

This is a nice pier! Plenty of seating, lighting, trash containers and fish were biting!

Here is a view from the pier of the beach.

This is one of the nicest beaches we've been on. Fine white sand, no stones and lots shells to pick from.

This is a guy named Ralph from Panama City that was catching these fish one right after the other.

After a stop at the store for essentials, read that as beer and Pepsi's we headed home to make dinner.

After we ate I thought I'd go to beach to take some shots of the sunset but I get got held up doing something or other and the sun was down by the time I remembered. Maybe I'll get there in time tomorrow.