Cedar Key RV Resort, Cedar Key, FL

Date of Stay:  Sunday November 6, 2016 – Monday May 1, 2017 (6 months)

Rate: Our Lot 75

Website:  Cedar Key RV Resort
   11980 SW Shiloh Road
   Cedar Key, FL 32625
   352-543-5097

Activities:  We knew we wanted to have a low key winter here so we didn’t socialize at the clubhouse much.  Martha and Lee took over as managers during the summer and have done a great job.  The park is home to us.  Here’s a few highlites of the winter with a few photos.

   November:  I cleaned up Pelican Place with Dan’s pressure washer.  It had flooded a couple of times during the summer so it was quite nasty.  Shelley and Bob arrived and we enjoyed time with them at the clubhouse.  A little different atmosphere here but we will enjoy the peace.
   December:  Dan and Tricia got married at Pelican Place!! It was very informal with just them, us, John (who was the officiant) and Angie.  Gin developed the worse case of bronchitis just before Christmas.  Tricia’s Dad developed internal bleeding so T&D went to NC.

 

Together for 8 years… real commitment

   January:  Tricia’s father passed away shortly after D&T arrived in NC.  She stayed there several weeks to help her mom while Dan came back to CK.  Bill and Nancy visited a week while they were gone and we enjoyed going with them to Hart Springs for a nice picnic and stroll.  We took them to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park for another nice outing.  John and Marcella did some nice landscape work on their site.  Maggie and Vel arrived and started landscaping on their lot also.  I went with them to the Manatee Festival in Crystal River where Al and Pam sold all of their pvc birds.

 

Pontoon boat ride at Homosassa Springs

 

Wood ducks are so pretty

   

       Syl at the VC                                   Entrance                           Gin at the Underwater Observatory

 

Gray fox and Red fox napping

 

Lu the hippopotamus                                   Florida panther

   

Wild heron nesting                          Hawk                            Great Horned Owl

   

Pelican with chicks                                        Flamingos like to pose

   

Sandhill Crane                                      Wood Storks look odd resting on their knees

   

White Pelican                              Roseate Spoonbill                            Egret

   

Great Blue Heron           Nancy shoots a Wood Stork                 Pelican with chicks

   February:  John and Marcella’s nice landscaping was damaged by someone backing into the site across from theirs.  The MH hooked the big rock and dragged it across the sidewalk and gravel digging into the dirt.  Gin and I joined D&T for a day in Gainesville after spending the morning walking the La Chua Trail at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park.  M&V had a shed delivered and so did we.  Dan and I put the old one on his trailer and took it to the storage area for Lee and Martha.  Barnhill Landscapes did some more gravel work for us and put in a couple of big sabal palms.  I redid the other plants hopefully for the last time.  Bruce and Laura came for a week.  We all rented a pontoon boat at Treasure Camp and went up the Suwannee River to Manatee Springs State Park for a lunchtime picnic on a beautiful day.

 

Boardwalk at Alachua Sink         Gin and a gator on the trail

 

 

Lots of big alligators!

 

Egret                                         Flock of Sandhill Cranes

 

Wild buffalo and wild horses all at Paynes Prairie

 

All aboard!                                    We’re heading out!

 

Tricia and Vel enjoy the front         Dan, Gin, Maggie, Bruce and Laura enjoy the shade

 

Docked at Manatee Springs

 

Headwater is 72*                                      Gin and Tricia enjoy the view

   March:  I redid all the landscape edging using drainage pipe that Gin had cut down the middle. It was about 260’ but it sure looks better.  Dan and Tricia left early in the month to welcome their first grandchild (Bennett) into the world! Sure is quiet back here but they sure are happy in NC.  Gin stayed busy building a nice work bench and shelves in her shed (Gin’s Den).  Vel and Maggie’s friends Barb and Jeff came down from Nebraska for a few days to check out Cedar Key.  We joined them for a meal and a ride on the Tidewater Tours boat around the islands.  We saw bottle nosed dolphins “playing” in the water.  I wish I had my camera because it was “Spring time” playing.

 

     Entry from the road                                Pathway from patio to Pelican Place

 

Pelican Place is such a nice little get away

 

Our two new sabal palms

   April:  Kathy, one of Maggie and Vel’s friends from Lincoln, came down for a weekend visit.  We enjoyed meeting her and introducing her to Cedar Key.  Dan and Tricia came back down around the middle of the month.  We all got together for the end of season outings and we packed our shed full of stuff.  The pool was a welcomed relief in the afternoons.

 

From the roof of our MH