Pre Holiday Adventures

 You may have noticed that the last couple of years, we have gone camping in November and December.   We enjoy it as it gets out away from all the running around that goes with the holidays.

This year, the schedule was way tighter as everyone was busy and frankly campsite availability is fleeting on weekend nights (Fri & Sat) as it seems camping has gotten quite popular during the pandemic.

About 2 or 3 weeks ago I checked for openings and found a Friday and Saturday night at Johnathan Dickenson SP close by in Jupiter, FL.    I checked my work schedule to make sure I didn't have to work, and booked it.   Later we realized that Lucy had a gig so she wouldn't be able to go and Naya had things going on as well.  As it turned out the gig was pretty close to the park, so they came up Friday night.

I took the day off Friday and loaded up and was at the park by about 2PM.   I ate my lunch and my buddy Ernie showed up about an hour later.   We headed up to Hobe Mountain for sunset.  We timed it well as the clouds to the west made it disappear a few minutes early, so by the time we got to the top of the observation tower, everyone else had left already.      Above is the view looking west.  The sky had great color although this shot doesn't do it justice.

We drove back to the campsite and started a fire to build out a bed of coals.   Called Lucy for an ETA so we could plan when the food would be done, and made cocktails.

I just got a new phone, so was playing with the camera trying to be artsy fartsy and stuff...    The girls showed up and we ate and then sat around the fire generally just BSing until bedtime.  Not real exciting, except for the humidity.  When we were up on the mountain you could see it settling into the tree tops.  We had a plastic table cloth on the picnic table and it had puddles on it by the time we ate!

Ernie was in his tent and said it rained on him from the ceiling of the tent all night.   It was sooooooo thick, we hit the dewpoint before it was fully dark.