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St Andrews State Park at Panama City Beach – RV Park that’s like staying in the wilderness

Panama City Beach has a feel of being a real “Spring Break” kind of place.  Lots of places to buy or rent wetsuits, snorkeling gear, bikinis, hamburgers.  Lots of big resorts next to run-down summer rental townhouses.

But driving just a couple of miles to the St Andrews State Park was like driving back into the Florida wilderness.  It’s rustic and quiet here, our site backed onto the Grand Lagoon and had lots of bushes and trees to give a sense of privacy.  There are several white-tail deer that live right in the campground, we saw them every day.

Lovely place to stay!

Here’s my review of this park: http://rvparkreviews.com/regions/Florida/Panama_City.html#CGID772,

and here are a few pictures of our site:

In Depoe Bay, OR we are staying very near to the beach!

We’re here in Depoe Bay, OR this week, which is right on the coast.  It’s a beautiful coast area, part beaches and part rocky cliffs.  We haven’t taken any pictures yet because we’re finding that it’s very foggy … all day the fog never lifts and we can barely see the treetops because of the heavy fog!  We’ve gotten our winter coats back out as it doesn’t get very warm either.

We’re hoping the skies clear in the next few days so we can drive the coast before we have to leave!  We did walk to one of the beaches the other day and while we were in coats, long pants and I had my gloves on, kids and people were in shorts and bathing suits!  It was in the 50s!  I guess to the locals it’s beach weather just because it’s August! LOL

The manager of the park said that it gets more foggy here when it’s warm in Eugene and Portland and they’ve been having a heat wave.  It’s supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow (Saturday) and he thinks that will cause it to clear up a bit.

Well, I am glad we’re here with cooler weather rather than in Ariz or Miss where it’s in the 90s and 100s!!  🙂

The RV Park where we’re staying is one I consider “rustic”.  It’s older and there are a lot of permanent trailers and a couple of small manufactured homes.  Of the 53 spaces, more than half are permanent people.  Many of them are older and the manager said they need a lot of assistance and checking up on.  We’re finding that happening in a lot of the older, “rustic” RV parks – people are moving in permanently!  Maybe we’ll end up doing that somewhere!

Here’s the link to the RV Park: http://www.fogartycreekrv.com/.