Friday, September 19, 2014

Wickham Park in Melbourne, FL

Our first stop in Florida was Wickham Park in Melbourne, FL.  What a lovely, lovely place.  We stayed here from June 30th to August 2, 2014.  It is a public park.  For my Columbus, OH friends, you'll understand when I say that it's a park much like our Columbus Metro Parks.

There is about 400 acres of land which included swimming ponds, fishing ponds, baseball field, multi-purpose fields, amphitheater, archery range, equestrian barn, and frisbee disc golf.  When we were there, though, it was TOO HOT to do ANYthing outside.  We tried to play on the playground once, but lasted only about 5 minutes since it was not shaded.  (And there was NO way we were going to swim in a pond!)  The campground is all the way in the back of the park.





Ranger Office


One of the entrances to the park.








Baseball Field


The campground was located all the way 
in the back of the park. 


The drive back to the campground.


Bummed that we never saw any armadillos
in the park.  We have seen plenty dead on the 
side of roads, though.


We were surrounded by water. 
Never once saw an alligator.  


Drive back to the campground.





We saw tons of these guys!  


And tons of sandhill cranes.


And there we are!  
We had tons of space.
We never had any neighbors right next to us.


It was hot especially with NO shade!



We met some good people here.  





Here's Jake (in the middle of my boys).
We met him here at the campground.
He is a full-time RVer too.  


This is when we were getting ready to leave this 
campground to go to our next stop in Florida.
The boys were getting in all the play time they
could with Jake.  We were super excited just the 
other day to come home to find a note on our
door from Jake and his family saying that
they were probably going to be moving to where
we are right now.  Yeah!  We would love that!

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