10/25/2012 Getting Settled Day

(Cocoa Beach, FL)

Moving day once again.  This move is only several hundred feet though.  When we arrived yesterday we were told we could have a waterfront site if we would wait for a day.  Needless to say, we agreed.

The first thing I had to do was go change our site and get paid up.  We have decided to pay for one week to start with although we are already thinking that we may be here two.  Our daily site rent here in the Manatee Cove FamCamp is $18.00.

While I was in the office I asked the camp host if we should be concerned about Hurricane Sandy.  She said we would be fine that the storm is still 250 miles out to sea and if we get anything we will be on the outer fringes of it.  She assured me that she wasn’t even giving this hurricane a second thought.

At ten o’clock our new site was empty and we were free to move over.  It didn’t take us long to get backed in.  This is so nice!  We have water views out of all our windows.  We are backed up to the Banana River and we are a 15 second walk to the beach behind our place.

We took that very short walk to the beach right behind our site to check things outs.  Oh the fish were jumpin’!  Mullet fish were jumping out of the water which can only mean one thing, bigger fish were feeding.  Bob is a happy camper and I’m betting before the day is out he’ll be back there fishing.

Here is a picture taken from the side of 5th wheel towards the back.



It’s starting to get cloudy but the sun still peeks through once in a while.



Sure enough, Bob was fishing as soon as we got set up.  He didn’t last too long because the wind was starting to whip and the river current was getting swift.  The weather changed by the half hour it seemed.  The sun could be out and all was calm and the next thing you know its windy, dark and river is nothing but white caps.  Yet, we don’t have to worry about Sandy.  I hope that’s right.



Later in the day when things were once again calm, clouds moved out, the sun was out and the river smooth and I walked out to the beach and saw this.

A little while later I was sitting at the dining table inside and when I looked out the window there was another one.



A better look.

After dinner it was quite windy and bands of rain are coming down.  The river is nearly all white caps and our 5th wheel is rockin’ and rollin’.  You can bet we’re watchin’ Sandy!