Christmas at Fort Desoto

We had a beautiful spot at Ft DeSoto for Christmas!

 


 Our own private beach!


Thank goodness for the sign. I was down on our  little beach and needed some help getting up over the sea wall.  Oh, the joys of getting older!


Now that we live out of Pinellas County, it is very difficult to book a site since residents have a seven month window and the rest of the folks get a six month window. I am not complaining, I wish the State Parks would give a window to Fl residents as some of the parks are almost impossible to get in (2 1/2 years of me getting up early to be on line at 8:00AM before I was finally successful at Gamble Rodgers State Park).  Fort DeSoto holds back 10% of their sites and release those at 7:00AM on Fridays for the upcoming week (another great idea for the State Parks). So I was up early on Friday before Christmas to be ready at 7:00AM, but no sites were available.  I kept refreshing my screen and finally at 7:05, the site began to populate.  They come one at a time so I had to keep refreshing but I was successful and very surprised that we got one on the water.  

Christmas in the campground



Seen in the Campground

When one camper is not enough  
 
 
Wrong Holiday?
 


Ah - this is the sunshine state


I always forget what a great place this is to just relax.  It is a little bit of a drive from North St Pete, but the interstate helps and it is definitely worth the drive,

Next Destination:  Red Oaks RV Resort for New Years with our Camping Buds