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Our vacation was wild, Check out the pics on my MySpace in our Florida album. There was crazy traffic on the way down, we got stuck in a nasty storm in Miami. We arrived 22 hours later , at 2:14 am. To set up camp, yeah we were at a local campground about 4 miles away from the main strip in the keys. So we started with getting our tent up in the dark (lol) , then proceeded to blow up our air mattress , our power converter that supposedly could handle up to 400 watts still would not blow the dam thing up.
Lucky for us the bathhouse in the campground had an accessible power outlet , so we drug the dam thing in there, one we got that established we made it to bed around 4 am,
Day 2 (the rain)
So its pouring down raining inside and outside our tent ( even though I weather proofed the tent)
And wild roosters and chickens are like pigeons back in Johnstown , so I get woke up at 6 am by a rooster call! Scared the crap outta me. Plus it is hard to sleep past 6 am in a tent in Florida to begin with..it’a already like 89 degrees.
The tent incubates the heat tremendously
I played around the campground most of the first day. Fiddler Crabs , Bigger crabs , wild iguanas licked my toe as I napped on the docks. it was awesome. I caught frogs and geckos all day J Allot of wildlife and beautiful plants everywhere.
By the end of the second day we had made some friends at the campground..)fellow musicians) we jammed , smoked and drank till about 1am..then the campground owner came by and told us to keep in down.
From there we all packed up in dudes lifted really nice bronco and headed to town to be loud and drink some more. I did karaoke and we all got silly.
Day 3
We decided to try to do something regardless of the rain or not, So Brian and I snagged a kayak and went through the bayou of the mangrove forest. we kayaked all the way to the bay where we saw a ray of some sort. it’s real hard to paddle in those mangrove forest , very tight and awkward.
That evening we noticed our fly pole to our tent had broke off , and our grill didn’t have all the parts. On top of that one of our tiki torches got messed up. So off we went to get another tent.
We went to higgs beach and a nice restaurant off the beach. then I found a coconut piece I decided to glue seashells to and make a coconut boat J
Day 4 We scheduled our parasailing and glass bottom boat ride we had a few hours to kill so we went strolling to the shipwreck museum. That was neat.
Our parasailing was awesome! We were about 300 feet up. the glass bottom boat was nice I likes being on deck better though. They let you bring alcohol and smoke everywhere down there.
I bought a pretty hat with seashells on it J
We decided to leave early Saturday morning and break up the trip home. We stopped by a turtle hospital ,saw the endangered Key deer and of course I took a bunch of pictures.
We head to Sanibel Isle from there. that where Brian spent most of his summers as a child.
And let me tell you that was the most beautiful beach I had ever seen.
Seashells EVERYWHERE! So we played and collected a bunch.
After Sanibel we tried to go back to his grandmas house but it was a secured area (she passed away awhile back) and we couldn’t get in.
Then we stopped to take a tour of the everglades on an airboat (that thing was loud but awesome.
Then on the road home. it took forever. we stopped in the only motel we could find vacancy in for 127$ a night,
On the way home we faced allot of detours. man was I glad when we made it back to the mountains.
So that was our vacation J
After we made it back it took awhile to get used to thing again. My turtles escaped and we were all very tired.
J
