As full timers, we use Escapee mail in Livingston. We can stay for a night or two at our Escapee Rainbow's End campground. There is a good laundry right there and we can just walk up to the mail room window and pick up our mail. We have always been impressed by the workers in the mail room. They will answer any questions and our mail is always packaged neatly and mailed to our current location----often a "general delivery" at a local post office.
The other business is a visit to the dentist for Jan and myself. We try to schedule our checkups right after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, we both always seem to need extra work, so we will stay in the area for a few weeks.
park admissions vary. Livingston is $5 each person for every day. Martine Dies is $3 per person per day.
Lady Blue is happy in our large site on a small cove.
We are surprised that there are so few people in the park. But it is after Thanksgiving and a very wet few days.
Steinhagen is a fairly shallow lake and the birds love it.
Not just egrets and herons, but ,many smaller birds like Pileated Woodpeckers, Bluebirds, Warblers, Kestrels among others.
Always fun to see the Bald Cypress trees growing in the water.
There are a number of trails in the park. this one is the Slough Trail, about 2 plus miles. That is pronounced "slew". Yes, we had to ask.
The trail has 16 bridges through swamp and harder grounds. The cypress love the swamp.
Sticking up out of the ground near the cypress are these growths they call "knees". Some rangers indicate that they are assumed to be for better balance in the soggy water.
The bridges are well made.
Later Fall and the leaves are pretty well down from the deciduous trees. But the live oak and pines are still offering a lot of green.
Still a lot of color from some sweet gum tree leaves and others.
Quite a lot of rain for the past week or so. The mushrooms are quite happy.
We are enjoying these parks, because we know it will take about 2 days travel west to be in the beginning of much drier, desert surroundings. But that seems to be a few weeks away .
There are Shelf mushrooms and Shelf mushrooms.
This one seems to be big enough to invite extra company in those holes in the bark.
We didn't think too much of this picture when I took it, but once I put it on the computer, it was-----Whoa!!!
Do you see a long green body? Do you see the front leg in the foreground? How about the huge wide open mouth? Eyes? And are those antlers or a kind of prehistoric monster dinosaur crown?
Yes, the Christmas decorations are up. Must have the Kissing Bears!
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