Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Florida Bound 2012--Day 7

Just relaxing in the sun.

Have mostly just relaxed and not done much of anything since we arrived in Florida. Spent some time with cousins Yvonne and Bob. Have done some shopping and gone to lunch with Bob each day. The dogs and I have done some exploring around the Magnolia Beach Campground. This first picture is of the beach immediately behind the RV park. On Monday Bob and I headed over to Gulf Breeze to find a Beall's Outlet store. These outlet's are all around in Florida and in previous trips I've found it is one of the very few stores I don't mind shopping for clothes. Picked up some shirts and new walking shorts. Tuesday we drove over to Pensacola to the Naval Air Stations Navy Exchange. Needed a couple of new "Retired CPO caps". We wound up stopping for lunch each day, including a stop at Taco Bell. (Yvonne babysits for her next door neighbors infant so she has been pretty much not be able to join us in our excursions.)

Today Bob and I drove over to the Navarre Pier for lunch. There is a little grill/bar at the head of the pier that serves pretty good sandwiches. This is a great beach with incredibly beautiful white sand. (The "sand" is not actually sand in the normal form. This is granular quartz that washes down the rivers from the Adirondack Mountains up north.) Due to the emerald green water along here this is call the Emerald Coast. After spending a little time this afternoon with the dogs I went back down to the beach here at the RV park to take some sunset pictures before going back over to the cousins for dinner. This shot was taken about 5:00 PM this evening.

2 comments:

Shelley said...

That green sea is what I first saw and fell in love with in Galveston; the white sand I didn't see until I found the west end of Panama City, FL. The Gulf Coast is truly beautiful.

Rod said...

Just wondering you can be Florida Bound when you are in Florida :-)
Enjoy those nice beaches and warm weather.