Blackwater River SP -Milton, Fl (Oct 12-16)

Sunday - After attending the outdoor worship service and saying goodbye to our friends, we made the 181 mile journey here. This is a gorgeous campground with new gravel on every site. There are only 30 sites and is almost full. This is a great place for kids, since there is a nice sandy beach on the river a short walk across a boardwalk away. John got the satellite set up after several tries. The tall pines here provide a challenge in finding open sky. We are too far from the Atlanta feed, so John missed seeing the Bears beat Atlanta.

Monday - We took an early walk, since it is still very warm here, with rain do later. We walked to the beach area and John tried the Tenkara with a all hopper. He got some action catching a small bream. We are hoping there might be som Talapia in the river. Joan took pictures while John fished. Thankfully, we don't have the gnats here. The rain has started about noon.

Tuesday - Heavy rains and lightening during the night, but no damage. More storms coming doing the day today. We are protected some from winds here in a pine woods. We headed into Milton to check out some parks on the water where we could launch the kayaks. We found a couple of beautiful ones, but it doesn't appear that the fish have come up into the rivers yet. We saw no action of fish crashing bait. Also, there were no fishermen anywhere. We also did a Walmart run. 

Wednesday - We tried to hike the trail down by the river, but after about a mile, we ran into water and had to turn back. It was a beautiful day , however. 

Thursday - Today was explore day to the coast. We started at Navarre Beach and paid a whole $2 to walk out on the fishing pier, to observe only. We saw a lot of fish in the water and also a shark cruising around not more than 200 yards away from people in the water. Several ladyfish were caught and a lady was quite excited with her Spanish mackerel. We then drove to the end of Gulf Islands National Sea Shore and checked out Ft. Pickens. Hie fort was quite interesting and was actually a Union stronghold during the Civil War. Again we walked the pier and saw several jellyfish float by. One man netted about a dozen mullet. We ended our outing with dinner on the water. 

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