Me and the girlfriend spent a few days at the end of June camping at Little Talbot Island State Park, just North of Jacksonville, Florida.
http://www.floridastateparks.org/littletalbotisland/default.cfm
Nice park, check in at the ranger station and the campground is back out the main gate and on the other side of the road. The camping area is gated, has 40 sites, each with electric & water, a boat launch that gets you onto Myrtle Creek.
Heres a view or two of the site we had.
The million dollar view looking out from our site. Thats Myrtle creek cutting across the picture.
We got there on Thursday (June 28 ) and later that night had this nice little storm blowing in.
Went to sleep that night to the sound of thunder, rain falling on the tent and flashes of lightning.
Spent Friday at the Jacksonville Zoo
On Saturday, we put our kayaks in at the boat launch and paddled down Myrtle creek to where it joins up with Simpson creek and then back. One thing, at low tide, you could probably walk Myrtle creek with no problem. During our stay we had AM low tides around 8, 9, 10 & 11 so it made for late in and heat of the day paddling once the water came back in. Heres some pictures of the campground boat launch at both low & high tide.
Low tide.
High tide.
Low tide.
High tide.
This is the track we paddled, it was only about 1.5 miles out & back. No pictures on the water, sorry.
Got back from the paddle, and after a while made dinner and just finished cooking and the big brother of Thursday's storm rolled on in. Very heavy rain, winds up to 50 MPH, lightning, thunder & possible hail according to the weather radio. We got the heavy rain, thunder, lightning & wind, no sign of hail.
Our dinner table on Saturday.
Storm let up about 6:30 and it was clear the rest of the night.
Sunday we drove down to Fort Clinch State park to check it out.
http://www.floridastateparks.org/fortclinch/default.cfm
And on the way back to Little Talbot, drove into the bigger brother of the storm from Saturday. Storm was pretty much over by the time we got to the campground, but the power was out, had lots more rain than the night before with bigger winds (according to the rangers). So we made dinner and then walked across the street to the main park and took a nice long sunset walk on the beach.
Monday we packed up and headed West to our next camping stop, in the rear view mirror saw the storms building up again. They over took us right about the time we were getting off I-295 (Jacksonville bypass) and getting on I-10 heading to Suwannee River State Park. Huge rain coming down for about an hour and we drove in the rain all the way to SRSP. Was just a drizzle when we got there.
But thats another trip report.
DM
mike
http://www.floridastateparks.org/littletalbotisland/default.cfm
Nice park, check in at the ranger station and the campground is back out the main gate and on the other side of the road. The camping area is gated, has 40 sites, each with electric & water, a boat launch that gets you onto Myrtle Creek.
Heres a view or two of the site we had.
The million dollar view looking out from our site. Thats Myrtle creek cutting across the picture.
We got there on Thursday (June 28 ) and later that night had this nice little storm blowing in.
Went to sleep that night to the sound of thunder, rain falling on the tent and flashes of lightning.
Spent Friday at the Jacksonville Zoo
On Saturday, we put our kayaks in at the boat launch and paddled down Myrtle creek to where it joins up with Simpson creek and then back. One thing, at low tide, you could probably walk Myrtle creek with no problem. During our stay we had AM low tides around 8, 9, 10 & 11 so it made for late in and heat of the day paddling once the water came back in. Heres some pictures of the campground boat launch at both low & high tide.
Low tide.
High tide.
Low tide.
High tide.
This is the track we paddled, it was only about 1.5 miles out & back. No pictures on the water, sorry.
Got back from the paddle, and after a while made dinner and just finished cooking and the big brother of Thursday's storm rolled on in. Very heavy rain, winds up to 50 MPH, lightning, thunder & possible hail according to the weather radio. We got the heavy rain, thunder, lightning & wind, no sign of hail.
Our dinner table on Saturday.
Storm let up about 6:30 and it was clear the rest of the night.
Sunday we drove down to Fort Clinch State park to check it out.
http://www.floridastateparks.org/fortclinch/default.cfm
And on the way back to Little Talbot, drove into the bigger brother of the storm from Saturday. Storm was pretty much over by the time we got to the campground, but the power was out, had lots more rain than the night before with bigger winds (according to the rangers). So we made dinner and then walked across the street to the main park and took a nice long sunset walk on the beach.
Monday we packed up and headed West to our next camping stop, in the rear view mirror saw the storms building up again. They over took us right about the time we were getting off I-295 (Jacksonville bypass) and getting on I-10 heading to Suwannee River State Park. Huge rain coming down for about an hour and we drove in the rain all the way to SRSP. Was just a drizzle when we got there.
But thats another trip report.
DM
mike
