Crystal River Trip Saturday 3/23

Saturday 3/23

Last evening Linda had a pain in her back. (No…Not me…I’m a pain in the butt.) I ran to Winn-Dixie for some Icy Hot patches.  This morning she is getting around better and wanted to go downtown.  

The first stop was to get Big Blue a bath at Mr. B’s Car wash.  Those kids really hustle.  We were about eighth in line and we were done in less than a half hour.

Here is an aerial view of the Crystal River area.  The main river is in the center with Kings Bay to the right and the Gulf of Mexico to the left.  We are at site 42.  At the top of the pic is the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant.  

Notice that this area of FL, just about 20 miles north of Tampa for about 200 miles to Carrabelle, has no beaches.  The Gulf just flows into the tidal marshlands.  

The area beyond the marsh is the "Flats".

It's where we went fishing out first day.

The only beach is at Fort Island.  It’s less than a quarter of a mile long and is packed on the weekends.

Then we went to the Heritage Village area of town.  Many of the small older Florida towns have a semi-restored section that gives you the feel of the town in the late 1800’s to early 1900's.

The old Town Hall

The General Store

 

We had lunch at the Hardwood Smokehouse.  Good barbeque!

Back at the campgrounds Linda thought that an ice cream cone would melt around the pile of barbeque we had for lunch so we stopped at the ice cream shop.

Crystal Isles RV Park seems to always have something going on.  Today Pig Daddy’s had a mobile barbeque set up.