April 16-17 Palatka & St Augustine

We drove from Titusville to a State park in Palatka called Rodman State campground...it was a very pretty spot along a "barge" canal; it was built in the 60's for barges to transport goods. As water conservation has become more of an issue especially here in Florida, it was built to help preserve more clean water. The campground was very quiet, very rustic; the only concern we had was there is a State prison not far away, and we saw prisoners along the side of the road "working". We biked a couple miles to the dam and watched the locals fish from the spillway. The next day we drove a short distance to St Augustine to stay the weekend at a private resort called Stagecoach RV Park. We spent the rest of the afternoon in the old town; St Augustine is the oldest town in the US. They boast that they have the oldest street, oldest house, oldest school.....you get the jist! Had a great waterfront dinner with lots of seafood and after appies, chowder, main entree and caramelized bananas over ice cream, we had lots of leftovers for a Sunday meal.  The weather has been iffy, some thunder, lightening but thankfully no rain during the day.  On Saturday we took a trolley to see all the sights of St. Augustine, took a distillery tour and walked around "Castillo de San Marcos" fort, the oldest fort in The USA still standing.

 Jonathan Livingston State park, a very rustic quiet place

 at rhe state park we biked over to the boat launch; and sure enough as the sign warned us; "STAY OUT OF THE WATER AS CROCODILES MAY BE NEARBY!! if you can blow up the picture you'll see a beeding pair of eyes just above the water at the end of Carolines pointing finger!

 a view just after the spillway

 on the oldest street in St Augustine

 The original fort in St Augustine