Port Canaveral, second visit

3-12-2015 to 3-27-2015

We originally were going to be headed back to the west coast at this time, but we decided to turn around and head back to the Cocoa, Fl area for our high school class reunion and RV rally after that.

We again camped at Jetty Park right at the inlet from Port Canaveral to the ocean. This is probably one of our favorite places to camp. We are right on the water and there is never a dull moment. We watch the cruise ships come in in the morning, and then we send them off in the afternoon. It's a kick waving and sending everyone off on their cruise. Usually there are anywhere from one to three ships going out, but on one particular day we saw six ships going out. It even brought the locals out to give everyone a big sendoff.

The weather had gotten warmer so many people came out to enjoy the time at the beach on the weekends. We had never seen the beach so crowded.

We saw another night Atlas rocket launch and several submarines coming and going. There never was a dull moment.

It wasn't just cruise ships, submarines and rocket launches but there were lots of dolphins, diving birds, and turtles.

The highlight of this stay was connecting with so many high school friends. We had several lunches and breakfasts with former classmates. The reunion committee did a bang up job organizing the Saturday dinner/ dance. We can still do it, can't we.

We had one interesting encounter as a German cruise ship docked very close to our campground. The cruisers would walk through the campground on their way to the beach. They were amazed at the size of the Rvs in the campground. We had interesting discussions with people from Hamburg and Munich.

Of course, their English is much better than our German.

The weather finally turned on us. We could not run our air conditioner at night, so some evenings were a bit sticky. We left just in time to attend an RV rally in Orlando, where we had electrical hookups and could run our air conditioners.