Defuniak Springs, FL

We drove about 3 hours to Sunset King RV Park in Defuniak Springs, FL.  It was a private park with the sites close together but it was nice and quite.  It was also a Passport America park so that saved us on camping fees.

Ron and Pat who were parked across the street from us had a huge telescope...

...and they let us look through it that night.

Pat had to show us which direction in the sky to look.

We got to see Orion’s belt, the dark spot on Jupiter, and some other stars and constellations as well as the moon up close.  I wish we could have seen the rings of Saturn, but it was too far down in the horizon. 

We also discovered that we could zoom up with our new camera and get really good pictures of the moon:

Ron had owned a cabinet shop in east Tennessee so they swapped old war stories about the cabinet business.

The next day, we walked around the campground and down to King Lake.  It was full of stumps.

It looked like it would be a great place to fish but the water level was very low.  The campground office told us that this area of Florida was in a drought.

Chuck took a picture of a little turtle in the water.  Can you see him?

How about now?

And on our walk back, we saw this unusual golf cart.  Pretty cool, huh?

Chuck also washed the motorhome because we needed to get all the salt from the beach off of it while we were there.  The park charged a $5 fee to wash your RV; but it was worth it to get all that salt off the motorhome.