Bulow RV Park Review

Where are we today? 

Bulow RV Park, Flagler Beach, Florida

It was just a short drive down to Flagler Beach where we checked in to Bulow RV Park. This is an Encore resort, between St Augustine and Daytona. We are here for 6 nights.

Park Review.

The Good

This is a very quiet Thousand Trails/Encore property so the rates (for us) are very reasonable. The lots are big and you can have 30 amp or 50 amp. There are a lot of tent sites as well. A few of the big rig sites have a small concrete patio pad. The Live Oaks are beautiful and some of the sites have full shade. There is a very nice dog run area which Timmy appreciated. The Office/store and the Roadhouse Bar are newer buildings. Next to the bar are new bathrooms and are all very clean. The pool area looks well maintained, but the water is a bit too cold for us. It is very close to some beautiful beaches and lots of flat water in the Tomoka Basin for canoeing or kayaking. The Tomoka Basin runs for several miles just a tad inland from the ocean. Good base for exploring both St Augustine and Daytona.

The Bad

Some areas in this park are very run down. The old club house is losing it's roof and it looks as if they had blue tarps on it to protect the insides from rain. The tarps are shredded and the bits are still hanging off the roof. Maybe it is some kind of hurricane damage from ??? The inside of the building is in bad shape with the ceiling falling in. What used to be gym has a falling in roof and damaged walls. No equipment. The laundry in the building is pretty shabby but the machines do work. Maybe they will renovate, maybe they will just tear it down. I hope they do something because it is not a pretty site the way it is.

Except for one set of bathrooms near the Roadhouse Bar, the other bathrooms very run down and shabby, but they are clean.  

The Ugly

The dumpsters are open and there is a lot of trash lying around. It seems that the flock of turkey buzzards in the area come here for lunch every day.

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This morning the sun was shining, the birds were singing, there was no wind. It is actually a very nice campground. We will come back here if we are in this area again.

Our site is a drive in forward as opposed to a back in.

Beautiful trees dripping with Spanish Moss

Old KOA cabins

Registration Office.

Nice clean pool

Badly damaged roof and old shredded tarps

Reflecting ponds

Garden at the entrance

Entrance to "The Village" a gated community next to the RV Park

Old bathroom

We are over there in the distance somewhere.

Fountain near our site

Dog run

Volley ball

Very quiet Patio

New bathroom

Reflections

Self explanatory

Putt putt

Large level sites

Clear view of the SW sky.

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New fridge door.

Where are we today? 

Pecan Park RV Resort, Jacksonville, Florida

If you remember, our fridge door hinge broke back on December 2nd while we were at The Oaks. We thought we had fixed it with epoxy, but it broke and fell off again. Calls and emails to Norcold, then a search on their web site to find a parts supplier and we found Dick Gore RV World in Jacksonville.

Just north of the dealership we found an RV Park, which is part of our Coast to Coast affiliated parks. 3 nights booked and that is where we are now. We went to Dick Gores and picked up the door. Very easy to fit, including a reinforcement bracket for the hinge. Hopefully it will not break. Luckily we have a bumper to bumper warranty on the RV so we only had to pay $50 with $171 coming from Secure Warranty. Hooray!!

Pecan Park is new and very clean and neat. Concrete pads for everyone. The park is long and narrow, being about 1 km long fron front to back. There are almost 200 70' X 40' pull through sites. It is very convenient to the I95 and right next to a big flea market. There is a pool. a big laundry room and a catch and release pond. Picking up the satellites was a piece of cake because there are no trees. The only downside is that it is on the landing approach to the Jacksonville International airport. There are frequent planes coming in to the airport, but, thank goodness, there are no overnight landings. We did get to see the undercarriage of many jets as they were coming in to land. We would stay there again.

Pool area

Our site #103

Long view of the campground

Neat sites with long concrete pads.

Apart from the trip to the dealership, we also took a drive to the beach and had lunch at Joes Crab Shack and took Timmy for a walk on the beach. Timmy loves the beach and runs around like crazy! This time he got quite the surprise when he did not realize that the water on the beach was actually a hole filled with sea water, and splash, he fell right in! He was so funny as he almost walked on water to get out! Poor little guy was soaked.

Timmy, feeling very sorry for himself

Fantastic beach - looking south

Looking north on Jacksonville Beach

The patio of Joe's Crab Shack

Almost all dry.

Lunch was OK. We splurged on lobster. I had the grilled tails with shrimp and scallops and Michael had the Lobster Bisque. I gave the food a 2 1/2 out of 5. I had to send the silverware back as it was dirty and the service was very slow. However the view was wonderful! We had to sit on the patio because we had Timmy with us and he did his usual hoovering job under the table.


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Around Hilton Head

Where are we today? 

Hilton Head Harbor RV resort and Marina

We stayed 4 nights at this RV Resort at a cost of $49 per night. The resort is very well taken of. Meticulously neat and clean. Free wifi abd cable are included in the price. When you get there you are given a map with all available sites and you then go and pick one. We stayed near the front of the resort in the less treed area so that we were able to get the satellite easily. The sites are all concrete and (for the most part) level. Narrow, but long enough to take the longest rigs. We could walk along the harbor front and see all the boats moored there. The resort is right at the entrance to Hilton Head just after crossing the bridge. The only downside is to get out of the resort and make a left turn to go further into Hilton Head, you have to cross the busiest road on the island. Very time consuming waiting for all that traffic to pass.

Site 72

The Marina

The sites are even long enough for big motorhomes such as this Prevost

Kiddies playground

On Friday Sheila took us on a tour of Hilton Head Island. We went up the lighthouse to see the view from up there. Here are some photos of that trip.

A huge yacht parked in the marina near the lighthouse.

Savanna, Georgia

Where are we today? 

Hilton Head Island

Today Sheila took me to Savanna, Georgia. What a wonderful city. I am not even going to try and describe the beautiful buildings, the squares and the river. We went on the Old Savanna Trolley tour. The guide pointed out all the points of interest. The history of the town, the people who lived there, the slaves, where various movies were made including Forrest Gump. Here are a few photos taken from the trolley. Please excuse the bad composition, but these were taken on the fly, so to speak.

I think this house was featured in the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

Tiny little house

One of the oldest houses in Savanna

The Pepto Bismol house

Old slave quarters

The road down to the river side.

Old warehouses converted into stores on the banks of the river