St. George Island

Saturday Morning we left Lake City and continued actually heading true West for the time on this trip. We headed to St. George Island on the pristine, emerald coast of the Gulf of Mexico in northern Florida. We stayed on the Island in the same named state park. One of the nicest we have been in. Unfortunately we could only get one night there.

Megan and I were sick from food poisoning all day Saturday but I was so struck by it that by noon on Saturday all I could do was lie down. I was hammered by it all night until 4:30 AM Sunday when it finally had run its course....

As you can see by the picture, our being affected by food poisoning didn't stop Jazz from enjoying "one of the best Smore's he has ever had."

This left me, finally, able to move and to make a concerted attempt to enjoy some of the time on this (what I had heard until this moment) beautiful island. So, on Sunday morning we headed down to the beach and sat in the fold out chairs until noon. We then went and broke camp and got out of our site but returned to the beach for the rest of the afternoon. We met and Dad and Son, on the beach, from Tallahassee who had been camping there for the weekend. We hung with them and the the kids enjoyed swimming and exploring in the salty gulf waters. At around 3:30 we headed to the RV to head out west a bit further over to Mexico Beach, Florida as we head on and aiming to be out of Florida by Mid Week. The water and sand and bright clear sky's and the reasonably limited population of tourist in these coastal towns make them perfect spots to be in the winter.

"I think if you click on it you can enlarge it"
If you look just to the left and over the top of Jasper's friend Jake you can see one of the many dolphins that swim by just 50 feet or so off shore. The boys actually got to within 15 feet of them but I wasn't there to get the picture. You can see it on the Picassa site listed in the My Profile section to the upper right of the blog page.

Here is Jazz riding his bike on the beach and obviously thru the shallow tidal pool left just as high tide is starting to come in.