Winter Excursion 8, Day 33

As today is Sunday we hung out at camp to watch football. We did manage to fit in a cribbage game and Cath won her first match of this camping trip!

The campground remains almost empty. We had two leave and one arrive. That leaves four campers total including our host.

The host made it a point to tell me to check out the Holiday inflatable at his site. He said it was right up my alley. The rotor at the top actually spins!

We ordered pizza for dinner as it is a football day!
 

Winter Excursion 8, Day 32

We were bums this morning and just laid around until 1030. 

We drove back to Wally World to pick up a scrip for Cath. This has got to be the slowest WalMart in the world. They told us yesterday her scrip would be ready by 1500. We came back at 1100 today and it was not ready. They said 10 minutes, 40 minutes later we were finally on our way.  I'm thinking all the folks in this area that need scrips are suffering!

Back at camp we played some cribbage. So far this trip Cath is not doing so good. I told her "I control the cards". LOL!

The Camp Host and his friend decorated the campground late this afternoon. This is the blowup on our site.

The Host had no idea that our Grandkids have a Corgi. This is a giant one!

We will get pics of the rest of the campground blowups in the next few days. It will be like the "find of the day"!

All is well in the Boss Camp!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 31

On the drive here yesterday we saw a few interesting things on the way. We couldn't get any good pics as the truck was being pushed by a camper and can't be stopped on a dime to snap a pic. So today we backtracked a little to get a few pics.

While in the south we see these old fireplace chimneys occasionally out in the country, but rarely two together. At one time I'm sure there was a house here. 

Here's American Legion Post #91 outside of Blackwell, SC. I think maybe half a dozen could fit inside.

Here's the sign for the Post and the lone WW II tank.

When was the last time you saw bottled Coca-Cola for 5 cents? Denmark, SC.

This guy (or bug) was in Bamberg. SC.

He's even decorated for Christmas!

We stopped at the Wally World in Barnwell, SC. That was a big mistake, Today is 1 Dec and we think everyone within 50 miles who is on Social Security or EBT was there. The lines were awful. Live and Learn!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 30

Check out time from Buck Hall is 1100. We stretched that to the limit and that was our plan. We got up around 0800 and took our good ole' time packing up. We left the site at 1045..LOL. Said goodbye to Ted (Camp Host) and headed out to Branwell State Park.

We took the back roads and saw lots of South Carolina Backcountry. It was a nice ride on very nice roads,

We pulled into Barnwell State Park at 1400. The place was empty! We joked about being in our only campground ever that no other camper there there.

Here's our view from the campsite.

Our pic of the campsite.

Now our view up from the campsite. You can see our Host.

I'm sure it will be very peaceful tonight!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 29

I was up with the sunrise and ready for some fishing with my friend Tony. We left the boat ramp at 0715 in a super high tide. We were greeted by this sunrise!

The boat ride out to Bulls Bay was a cold one as temps were in the low 30s. The wind had been forecast to be light, but it was anything but. We fought the wind all morning.

I got this pic of the lone Palmetto Tree on Bull Island.

I got lucky and caught the first fish, a barely legal sea trout. That would be the last legal sea trout of the day.

I also got lucky and caught the only red fish of the day.

We fished all over the area and had no luck. All in all we caught 5 fish of which only 2 were legal.

After eight hours on the water we went back to camp.

Another group of fisherman at camp had gone out around noon for just two hours and caught over 30 fish (ten legals)!

Even thought we had a bad fishing day we had a good time and the conversation and story swapping with Tony was fun. Except for the wind the weather was perfect, but maybe a little chilly.

 

Winter Excursion 8, Day 28

Cath and I slept in for the second day! I think we are finally caught up on our sleep.

After breakfast we drove to Foster Creek to check out the PX and Commissary and pick up a few supplies.

On the way home we stopped at Wally World to get a few things including some "blue tabs" for the RV black tank. Not only did they not have any, but they don't even carry them. Amazingly there are no RV stores in the area, so we ended up at West Marine. They have a liquid form that does the same thing at $20 for a four pack. Typical West Marine!

Back at camp we got everything put away and I walked up to my friend Tony's camp. We are going fishing tomorrow. We leave at high tide/sun-up (0700) and plan on fishing all day. With any luck there will be some sea trout and reds in our freezer tomorrow evening.

All is well in the Boss Camp as long as I get fish tomorrow...LOL!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 27

We did not even get up until after 0800. We both slept like logs last night. Breakfast was at 1030..LOL.

We did a few camp chores, dumped the tanks (using the tote), and just relaxed.

I took an e-bike ride and got a few pics. This is the fishing pier at the campground.

Just off to the right of this pic you can see a pelican on the post. I tried to zoom in a little, but it's still hard to see him/her.

Later a new neighbor occupied the site next to us. They are from NY near Rochester. We talked with them for awhile and exchanged cards. They are on the way home after a RT66 trip.

Maybe a movie tonight, but I'm thinking sleep will come early again. This camping life is rough!