Friday, April 17, 2015

Spring Break at Panama City Beach

OK, this isn’t a story of debauchery at the beach. We’ve hit the tail end of spring break at the beach. There are big blinking light signs everywhere saying no alcohol at the beach as the town tries to keep the “rowdies” in control. All of that is farther down the beach.

We’re staying at St. Andrews State Park. Other than it’s very hard to get a few nights here (we were able to get only 2 nights), it’s a great park. It’s the only park I’ve seen where you can do laundry in view of the water (lagoon side). Having the bikes has been perfect, since the actual gulf side beach is a longer distance (1 mile?). 
  

The beach sand is very white and the waves are fairly high. The beach has been listed in several top 10 lists over the years. This is supposed to be a good beach for surfboarding for Florida. We saw several people with boards. Every once in a while they’d catch a wave for a few seconds. But it’s certainly not big waves like you see in the movies.

In the park they had a turpentine still and saw mill from the early 1900’s. I liked the saw mill park since it reminded me of Dudley Do-Right and how someone was always tied to the conveyor going into the saw. It even has a big lever that is pulled or pushed by the good guys and bad guys.


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