Walking, A Big One and New Friends

We decided to go back out to the Suwanee National Wildlife Refuge for our walk and ended up hiking close to four miles.  Our original planned route was closed off for a prescribed burn but we found another road that was doable.  We had hiked along probably for about 2 miles when we came to two ponds, one on either side of the road—murky, icky ponds.  While looking at one of these little ponds I heard something hit the water—turtle??  alligator??—I was all ready on edge when we strolled over to look at the other pond.  Michael noticed (can you hear the shark music) an object along the far edge of the water and said something about it looking like an alligator but it was probably an old stump.  Well, I zoomed the camera in for a close up and that was no tree stump:

That is one huge alligator!  Decided we had hiked long enough for one day!  YIKES!!

Today was Monday—time to strip the bed, wash the sheets and towels and try to vacuum up some of the grit and sand we seem to track in side.  Remember when we checked in to this park, found out it was in foreclosure, found out the laundromat consisted of only two washers and two dryers for 80 RV sites??  Well yesterday one of the camp hosts, Chuck stopped to visit and mentioned that the banker whose bank now owns this RV park was right across the street—Chuck suggested we voice our likes and dislikes about the park.  I told the man we really loved the layout of the park, the huge sites, the trees and I told him what I didn’t like—the non-heated pool and not enough washers and dryers.  I also mentioned that the back porch of the lodge, outside, wasn’t the greatest place for doing laundry. 

Chuck was grinning from ear to ear when he came by this morning to tell us the laundromat is being moved inside to a “conference” room and more washers and dryers are being added.  Ask and you shall receive I guess when the banker wants to encourage business!  And they are in the process of getting quotes for solar heating the pool!!

Jerry and Wanda are the folks from Mississippi traveling in a little Casita RV.  I’ve learned the people who own Casitas are close knit and call the little rigs, “eggs.”  Jerry writes a blog called EggRollings.  They along with their friends James and Brenda who arrived yesterday in their maiden voyage Casita are thinking of taking a trip to Alaska this summer in the cute little “eggs.”  Tonight they all invited us to go into Cedar Key, watch the sunset and have dinner—what a good time we had getting to know these folks better.  They can be blamed for all these sunset photos:

A very enjoyable evening and a colorful sunset.