What a difference a day makes!

After enjoying sunshine on Sunday afternoon, we awoke to steady rain and headed west to our next destination: Henderson Beach State Park.  Route 98 follows the Gulf of Mexico and despite the bad weather we saw some beautiful scenery, as well as lots of pelicans and cormorants.  After a stop for groceries and check-in, we settled into our site at Henderson Beach (Destin, FL). 

No more tall pines and grasses!  Here we're just behind the dunes and can take a boardwalk from our site to the "sugar-white" (as the brochures call it) sands of the Gulf of Mexico.  After the front came through, the sun finally came out again, but it's COLD!  This morning it was 38 and it's only supposed to get to around 50 degrees this afternoon.  Brrrr!  I just kept reminding myself that several weeks ago, Ranger and I took our first walk of the day in 17 degree weather.

Ochlockonee River SP was the quietest campground we've been in---far from towns and roads, very remote.  Henderson Beach is just the opposite.  It sits on a thin strip of land between Route 98 and the Gulf, so we can hear the cars on the highway and this morning I could see the lights of the Lowe's parking lot just above the trees and shrubs.  It's a drive of less than 5 minutes to a big mall.  Still, our site is lovely---even paved, so we don't track sand into the RV constantly!