St. Augustine to Patrick AFB

We left St. Johns RV Park this morning at 9:15 and headed south on I-95 to the Flying J at Exit 305 to get gas ($2.889 gal - after our discount). Then it was back south on I-95 to CR-509 at Melbourne and down to SR-404. We went east on SR-404 and crossed the Indian River on the Pineda Causeway to A1A.

From Patrick AFB

We drove north on A1A about a mile to the commercial truck gate at Patrick Air Force Base. After showing our IDs to the gate guard and getting directions to the FamCamp, the guard lowered the security barriers for us to enter.

From Patrick AFB

The campground is located on the western side of the airfield, so we drove around the airfield to the Manatee Cove FamCamp.

We saw a 747 over by one of the hangars at the airfield and I was able to get a photo of it.

From Patrick AFB

We arrived at the campground at 12:30 - 150 miles from St. Johns RV Park. We met Lorrie, one of the camp hosts, and she took Mike around to look at some of the site. Manatee Cove FamCamp only accepts reservations for active duty personnel and first come, first served for everyone else; but right now there are a lot of empty sites.

While they were doing that, I started unhitching the car. Mike & I then drove around to look at the sites that were available and we settled on #30. There was a site open right on the water, but it is a back-in and looks to be too short for us.

Site #30 is a pull through with full hookups (50 amp). We have a fairly good view of the Indian River. After Mike hooked up the electric and we leveled the RV and put the slides out, we stopped to fix lunch. After lunch we finished setting up camp and spent the rest of the afternoon just enjoying the view of the river. There are pelicans diving and fishing in the river and a family of blue herons in one of the Australian pine trees near our site.

Since the FamCamp office is closed on Sunday, Mike will go over tomorrow morning and pay. We had planned on staying here for 2 weeks, but this evening we decided to stay for a month.