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Aug 17 – FL

Day 16 – On our way towards Tallahassee we made a side trip to Crystal River to see what was going on with the manatees in that area and ended up at a public beach. So, of course, we took our first dip in the Gulf of Mexico. It was not as salty as South Beach in Miami – that was the saltiest beach we’ve been to so far – but it was very pleasant and refreshing. Jason and I were eyeing a big dark cloud system that was off towards the east of us and hoping it was going past around our nice beach area…. though after about ten minutes a 5 second blast from a siren that sounded as if we were going to get bombed answered our question and we all had to get out of the water. The siren sounds to let everyone know that they need to get out of the water due to some type of danger and than you listen to the radio to see what the danger is. The danger for today was a thunderstorm coming our way. So, we decided to try and out run the storm for awhile and keep heading northwest with the black clouds in our rearview mirror

We camped that night at Ochlockonee River State Park which was an average state park, with a nice river running right by the campground and some very playful squirrels running up and down the tree trunks and jumping from tree branch to tree branch.



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