We stayed one night at Grayton Beach State Park. When I looked online at the specific picture of the campsite that I reserved also online, it looked very private because it appeared to be fenced in by vegitation and trees. However, when we arrived, there was a campsite directly behind it that bordered the back of our site. There was a clear view if thier RV which was facing us, a fire burning, and also a loud radio playing Southern Rock. I have no problem with Nascar and Nascar fans. I enjoy a good Nascar race myself. Still, A nascar party was not what I imagined when I booked this campsite. We went to the forest ranger and the moved us to another site but it was till pretty close to the nieghbors. Also there were trails all around our campsite that lead to the the restroom shower area so people were walking by at all times of the night with flashlights. There was also a neigbor who treated us to several hours of classic rock. We could clearly hear the conversations from two of the nearby campsites. Grayton Beach Park is a nice place as far as the beach and park area but the camping experience is more of a place to stay or somewhere you would want to have an RV. Not good for tent camping. In the middle of the night I was dreaming along and I woke up into a sleepy haze hearing animals walking around our tent and then thrashing around on our picnic table. I thought I had put all food items in the car's trunk but I left a lunchbox and a can of nuts out. As I looked out the window, it looked like there were two bears trying to claw my lunch box open. I was half asleep and I was thinking to myself, "are there black bears in florida?". Then I woke up a little bit and realized that it was two very large and fat racoons who must have gotten that way by eating well from what they stole from campsites. I shined a flashlight at them and they marauded off to pillage the next campsite.
The next day we cut this particular venture short went over to Destin and checked in to a Motel 6. It was as sparse as most motel 6's but this one had a kitchenette and the room was actually pretty large compared to any Motel 6 room I had seen before.
Below are a couple of photos I took when we were eating lunch under a public Gazebo. I should have clicked a few more but I was busy enjoying the really beautiful beach. It was perfect weather. This part of our trip was actually the day before we camped O'Leno which I have already posted pictures of in the previous post.
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