A Week in Zolfo Springs

We wanted to check out the Walchula area as a possible wintering spot. There are quite a few rv parks there and so we booked a week at the Skp park near Zolfo Springs. While there we hoped to float the Peace River, perhaps hunt for fossils, check out local museums, in other words just do our usual stuff.
So we checked into the SKP Resort, its a beautiful park by the way, and settled down into our routine. In other words we started to make a few pieces of jewelry and kumihimo and before you know it three days had passed and we hadn't gone anywhere. There was a knock on our door and we met a nice Skp Sue,( a skp is short for Escapees which is a group of fellow full time rvers), who warmly greeted us with two giant oatmeal cookies. She had just gotten a lot there after eight years on the waiting list and so we talked about the application process.

Checking out things to do we found out that the Peace river was not at a good level to hunt for sharks teeth, too high, We still drove down to Zolfo Springs, zolfo means sulfur in Italian,  to look at the boat ramp. We also found out that the current was faster then we expected and so we decided a float from there was going to have to wait.
The county park there, Pioneer Park, has lots of rv spots, They were mostly empty  as were most of the parks we drove by., There were also exhibits of historic buildings, a museum, and an old locomotive.

Heading for the museum we were warmly greeted by the curator and soon discovered display cases filled with fossils and artifacts from the local area. It was really cool to see the beautiful mammoth and mastodon teeth and bones and it was a good display of what could be found.

As we were snapping images my camera stopped working and we realized the battery had run down, of course I had left my cell phone back at the fifth wheel, and so we were short on images for this post. No matter really as it had lasted long enough for the fossil and artifact images.
Two cold fronts were approaching, with gale force wind gusts, and so we cut our visit a day short heading to nearby St Petersburg and our location for the next two months, We always get nervous when ever we have to cross high bridges, crosswinds don't you know, and the Skyline Bridge in Tampa definitely qualifies as a high bridge.

As far as the park is concerned we decided not to apply for a lot. After talking it over we agreed that we like large parks with lots of activity's, walking trails for us and the dog,, a pickle ball court, (yeah we are definitely hooked), and nearness to the beach with salt water fishing. Clear skies