Since our Mom passed in '22 my remaining sister and I have taken turns on Thanksgiving and this year it was her turn to host again. This trip was a close repeat to one we took in 2023. Long Point Park in Sebastian is a county park that backs up on the state park at the inlet. We love the fact they have sites with direct access to the Indian River Lagoon off of the back of the site.
As it is a busy holiday weekend, the sites sell out quickly so I was on it as early as possible to get one. I took off of work Wed and we got a good start and arrived around 2:30PM
When I booked the site I recalled one I liked. The next morning the park called me to inform me I had chosed a tent only site for my coach and after a quick chat they assigned this one. As you can see there is quite a slope on it! When I pulled up, I thought we were screwed as backing in the ususal way, everything would slode to the back of the coach.
After walking around the site and looking at it from different angles, I chose this angle and the edge of the rear bumper was actually hanging over where ground dropped off. The water is only a couple of feet away on the other side if that cabbage palm by the kayak. It was very low here and you can see the mangrove seeds (they look like pens) all over the gound from the last king tide! This was fairly level although we used the air bags to level it off, The door side to max height and the driver side very low.
First thing out was the kayak as it rides in the middle of everything on the floor so a total PITA when it's in there.
By the time we got everything set up it was around 3:30 and Lucy hopped in the kayak and went off for a paddle as the wind was still. I recently bought a second SUP, this one is 10'6" single. I pulled it out and commenced the inflation procedures. I am fairly inexperienced with SUPs as the tandem one is VERY tricky with to in a standing position.
I launched off of our site and did a faceplant about 10 ft later as I took a surfing stance on the board quickly realized that would not work. As you can see by Lucy's stance above, feet parallel is the way to go.
I got my feet under me and paddled out to meet Lucy in the kayak, out be the island in the middle of the pic above. We went around for a short bit and headed back. Lucy got on the SUP and I got the two pics above.
I like how this pic makes Lucy look like she is Barbie sized lol. Shortly later Naya and her boyfriend showed up and they immediately took off on the watercraft as they only had about 30 min of daylight left.
Night comes early this time of year, so it wasn't long and I was building a cooking fire. We had a 2lb London Broil that had been marinating for 2 days. It took awhile as the grate was pretty high, but the steak and mini potatos came out delicious.
We burned through a good bit of wood and the temps were really mild at around 70ish.
Gratutious night shot of the coach all lit up. I see I had already unplugged the LED Pineapple light so this must have been when I was returning from the bath house just before bed.
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