Franklyn Lock and Dam

First a little foot note from the last post, this bird

I am a Roseate Spoonbill

Thanks Mitch! I thought his bill looked a little spoony to me 😉.

So on to our next spot.

See, we’re still close to the water. This place was about 15 minutes from where we store the RV. We were back to the concrete pad and the picnic table had a nice hard roof on it.

We are nice and close to the bathrooms and I even remembered the trash bags this time.

Now this place even has a marina

Gary says we could come here by boat too.

One of the things that is so interesting, is to see the other RV’s and how people set up their camp. This guy arrived by motorcycle

I didn’t see anyone so I didn’t know if he had a companion or not. Either way, it looks a little to cozy for me.

Some of the people go all out. They put up little banners “The Johnson’s”, they have special rope lighting that lights up the ground around their camper or the trees around them. One guy had a 20 foot flag pole! Granted, the pole was retractable but still. I can think of a better use of my limited storage than a huge flag pole.

We had a couple park next to us the second day we were there. They drove up in two cars and proceeded to set up the Taj Mahal of tents. They had so much stuff! I thought we were bad LOL. And everything looked brand new. They even had a trail camera that they tied to the pole on the picnic table. I guess we better not sneak around their campsite in our birthday suits at night. That would be a shock when they looked at the pictures 😨

One time we were anchored out on the Navigator and I could hear the cows moo. Guess what? They had them here too!

And we saw one of the boats from Stillwater

We tried to figure out what that thing was doing out here in the middle of no-where but we couldn’t find anything. Maybe it is someone’s personal boat????

We were finally able to test out the awning. It had been too windy the other times.

Good to know that worked, and I’m told you never go to sleep with that out, a sure fired way to wake up with it gone .

And did you notice our new tire cover? Gary figured we have to have a little Florida while we are traveling around up north.

Well, this turned out to be another successful shake down. Our next adventure is a boat trip to Palm Harbor Marina with our boat club. And we are hosting it. What could possibly go wrong????

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3 Responses to Franklyn Lock and Dam

  1. Tim Healy's avatar Tim Healy says:

    Speaking of awnings. I left mine out overnight. It rained filled up like a tub and bent my arms. Then as I was trying to get it rolled up and packed away. Someone walked up and said. “I saw you had the up last night. Don’t you know you are suppose to leave one end lower than the other. In rain storms” I didn’t kill him for not telling me the night before. BUT the thought went through my mind. Just so YOU know in rain leave one side lower.

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  2. trappedinmn's avatar trappedinmn says:

    Alright, we NEED to know how to get a tire cover like yours…ASAP !!!
    Careful traveling speeds above 55 with it, if it doesn’t fit really tight. We lost ours on a freeway somewhere long ago. I won’t travel with one on anymore, just put it on when we are stopped.

  3. CampHealy's avatar CampHealy says:

    LOVE the turtle!!

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