greenroads: Sand and water! To Carrabelle

Water everywhere! We headed East from Gulf State Park in fairly high winds early this morning. The coastal road seemed like a good idea rather than going inland to I-10. We just wanted to see the coast of the Panhandle of Florida...and who knows? Maybe we will spend more time here at some point. Carrabelle is a small town on the Gulf south west of Tallahassee. We have never heard of it but looking at our maps and RV campground books it looked like a good place to stop.

We crossed several bridges and causeways today reminding a bit of the keys or the intra-coastal waterways of Georgia and Eastern Florida.

This looks like snow!! And the white sand was blowing making it even more reminiscent of Bruce County!

There was quite a bit of wind today, mostly right into us. When we were really close to the shore, at Perdido Key in particular, the sand was blowing and maybe the surf. John put the wipers on and I realized it was not that hazy out...we had a film of sea salt on the windows!

We followed 98 along the coast from Gulf Shores to Panama City. The highway was busy and the area quite built up with big hotels, shopping malls and outlets and too many lights. But it was interesting. After Panama City, 98 became a 2 lane simple highway and less densely populated with many State Parks, trees and beautiful vistas. Along this road we looked forward to Carrabelle where we were hoping to spend the night. It looked packed in the RV park. Many people spend the winter here and we got one of the last transient sites left. We should have called ahead but were early enough to get a spot. If we didn't we would have trucked on to Perry, an inland town where we knew we could stay at a KOA.