Ok, time to explore the beach!!
Need we even say more?
The waves and currents were very strong it was almost impossible to swim but we did go into the water and gave it an honest try and had lots of fun. A set of flags on the beach indicate the conditions. In our case, yellow (Medium Risk) and Purple (Dangerous Marine Wildlife) which the ranger said was jellyfish in our case. We didn’t have the misfortune to meet any.
The sand here is local and not shipped in from the Bahamas as we were told it was in Key West. The dunes serve a very important purpose to protect the land behind them from flooding and are therefore protected themselves from human footprints and the erosion caused by walking on them.
After breakfast we hopped on I-10 west and left Florida and entered Alabama. Here we had lunch at the De-Railed Diner, a railway/travel themed diner at a travel centre.
Continuing onwards, we entered Mississippi and then Louisiana and stopped at their visitor centre to pick up some tips on what to see during our stay.
Our home for the night is the French Quarter RV Resort which located a short walk from the centre of the French Quarter in New Orleans!
We couldn’t have a better base for our stay. Now we were ready to experience New Orleans on a Friday night! What an experience, see Bourbon Street for yourself.
The front desk staff suggested we head over to where the locals go, namely Frenchmen Street, and recommended we visit the Snug Harbor for a Jazz concert with the Ellis Marsalis Quintet.
At the table next to us was a family from St. Louis, Missouri and we shared travel adventures and got a lot of tips of what to see, eat and do while in New Orleans.
The concert was over at 9:30PM and we still hadn’t had any dinner, so rather than taking a taxi back to the campground, we decided to walk and look for something to eat. The streets were packed and alive with music and all kinds of interesting stores.
We ended up having a slice of pizza and a litre of water and limped home, tired but extremely happy about the day.