Sebastian, FL.....1st to 4th March 2016....

1st March and time to move our home down the I-95 from Jacksonville to Sebastian... straightforward drive, quite amazed by the amount of car transporters but Jacksonville is also a big container port....we met a a lovely couple from Michigan at one of the rest areas who gave us lots of info for our up and coming road trip there in June/July....it was not as busy on the section of the I-95 past Daytona as we had expected....
Arrived mid afternoon at our home for the next month....we knew it was a back in site but not quite how tight is would be but Yorkieman excelled himself with reversing into the space complete with audience !
All good once we had set up camp, a couple of issues, no TV and wifi only available in the mailroom at the main office, a good walk away (it's a big campsite at least a half mile long and quarter wide !!) All is not lost we now have a very fast modem from the local supplier for a very reasonable price...we have forgone the TV....so far so good on that score !!!  We do have a pile of books and games a plenty, all of our music on the iPod plus internet that easily holds the BBC iPlayer for our favourite Radio 2 programs  so set for a TV free March....
This is very much a "snowbirds" campsite but all very friendly and our immediate neighbours are lovely....lots of activities if we care to take part....and did I mention the railroad !!! (we did know about that when we booked and that we back onto it !!) but hey it's blue skies, sunny and hot....

4th March.....Temps are mid 80's....can't get enough of this sunshine...
Today we drive north along the A1A coastal route.....first stop is at the interesting McLarty Treasure Museum part of the Sebastian Inlet state Park...
This is the site of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet Survivors & Salvaging Camp..
In 1715 a huge storm sank a fleet of Spanish ships carrying vast quantities of gold, silver and jewellery off the coast of Sebastian. Some 1,500 survivors struggled to shore many dying of exposure before help arrived from the Spanish headquarters at St Augustine. Over the next 4 years salvagers and English (umm) pirates flocked to the area, although much of the treasure was salvaged less than half reached the Spanish treasury....
In 1928 a wreck from the fleet was discovered, since then modern salvage hunters have made major discoveries worth millions of dollars, the area is now known as The Treasure Coast.....

He/she won't go hungry today, although he did have to fight off another crane to keep his dinner.....

Very pretty palm in the bird sanctuary grounds... 

It's sooooo crowded !!! The beach accessed from one of the many parking areas along the A1A scenic coastal route...
Might as well have lunch sandwich here :)

Juan Ponce de Leon.....
 Juan was a Spanish explorer and the first Governor of Puerto Rico also credited with leading the first known European expedition to Florida...

Time for a good walk along the beach....turned out to be more exercise than planned as walking into a strong headwind (the wind had gotten up as the day progressed) and one would think on the way back the wind would be behind you...ummm not so....

A very good day rounded off by seeing from our campsite the launch from Cape Canaveral of the SpaceX Falcon transporting a communication satellite into space...
More soon from the Sunshine State and
The Young Snowbirds....