We had heard good and bad about the Peace River RV Park. Only about one half of the sites have sewer hookups, so they have what they call the "lottery" for sewer sites. When you come in, you park in the overflow section, which is really rather nice. It is very grassy and nice sites--but no sewer. Your name goes on a list and then at 12:00 noon every day, the open sites are posted. At 1:00, everyone gathers and names are read off in the order they came into the park. When your name is called, you get your pick of the sites that are still open, until all of the sites are filled. If you don't like any of the sites left when your name is called that day, you can pass three days in a row, and then your name goes on the bottom of the list.
We thought it was a pretty good system! It only took us one day to get a sewer site--the first time we have ever won the lottery!
This sign has a drawing of the mascot of the park. This alligator's name is "Stumpy" because it was born with only three legs and a stump. It must be a congenital defect because it's mother only had three legs, also. He hangs out in Peace River, which almost surrounds the whole park.
A local fruit and veggie vendor sets up just outside the park twice a week. They were there the day we arrived so we got to stock up on yummy fresh food.
There are a lot of trees in this park and all are covered with "Spanish Moss." Yes, we found out what this stuff on all of the trees around here is called. No one could tell us if it is detrimental to the trees or not, but some of the limbs looked pretty dead to us. But, maybe they looked that way because it is winter! We tend to forget that it is actually winter here, too.
The site we got wasn't as grassy as the overflow, but we had a cement pad and no really close neighbors. The road was behind us and got pretty noisy during commuter time, but it didn't bother us any other time. We had a good spot to watch all of the coming and goings, especially at 1:00 when all of the "lottery" winners found their new homes. We got several new neighbors during our 2-week stay. Terry is just getting on his bike for a ride. We did a lot of walking and bike riding.
There were three families in the park--two with 5 kids each and one with 4. Two of the families had fathers who work from "home," and one family was just on an 8-month hiatis with their kids. All of the families home schooled their kids, and they were all very good kids. It was fun to watch all of them. I think their "race track" was in front of our site--bicycles, scooters, and peddle cars.
There is a trail that circles the whole park, following the river during part of it. It seemed almost like we were riding in a rain forest.
One day we decided we would go alligator hunting. We had seen lots of signs along the river so we hoped we would see one.
Sure enough, we spotted one across the river. When he saw us, he flipped around and swam across right to us. We backed up a ways until we were sure he wasn't going to climb up the bank. He was probably about 7' long.
He ended up being "Stumpy." We could see his back "stump" clearly through the water, but not in this picture. I got a really good video picture of him, but I can't figure out how to put it on the Blog! I am sure after we see many more of these guys, we will get used to it, but it is still a real novelty to us!
We got to do two craft sales at this park. We get things ready the night before, so the Journey gets pretty piled up with Scentsy for a while. We didn't sell too much, but met lots of great people! It is amazing at the people we meet that we have been with in other parks--even parks in the West. At Church on Sunday, we met the daughter of Rhea Carver, a really nice lady who lived in Emmett. We also met a man whose wife was born and grew up in Nampa. They were so anxious to talk more about Idaho that they invited us to go out to lunch with them the next week. We had a great time.
Everyone in our last park said to be sure and go to the u-pick strawberry farm in Wauchula. Well, we did--of course I forgot my camera. The strawberries are delicious. We have eight packages in the freezer, and that was after eating all we could that day. It was hard to stop picking because there were so many nice ones.
We stayed in this park for two weeks and now will put the Journey in storage at the same park for a week while we go on a Caribbean cruise. We are really excited to go to Cozmel, Jamaca, and the Cayman Islands.
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