On to Cocoa

Thursday, July 7 - Today is a travel day, so we headed out to fuel ($3.459/gal here) and hooked up with Mike at McDonald's for a breakfast sandwich.  We took the very scenic A1A north through Melbourne, stopping here to walk over to the beautiful beach.

So you can see the sky was pretty cloudy, and we hit rain shortly after this rest stop.  The beach is very accessible along this route, with many parking areas, boardwalks over the sea oats to the beach, and restrooms and showers.  The waves were pounding in here pretty good, and there were a few surfers out.

A fisherman here had 4 poles in the water, but he never had any action while we watched.  We were hoping he would pull in something exciting, but no luck.

Part of the scenery here on this highway are the variety of mailbox posts.  We've seen lots of dolphin, manatee, and even some seahorse mailbox posts here in Florida, but we came upon some new ones today -- turtle, tiki hut, pelican, mermaid, lighthouse, iguana, and even a huge conch shell.  If we have time here (if the launch gets postponed) I hope we can find a subdivision with some of these that I can get photos of.   We continued on our way, on through Cocoa Beach where we had toured last month when we came over to the Kennedy Space Center, then headed over to the town of Cocoa and our campground.  At the stoplight where we were turning, a car beside us said it all.

We got to the campground about 3:00, and they were ready for us with registrations (and patriotic-ly decorated cupcakes) because they were expecting to be very busy.  They led Joe to the parking space while I got us registered, and the rain started then.  I got a ride in a golf cart to the RV to stay dry, and we hunkered down and watched it rain for a while.  We know the launch is very iffy, but we are keeping our fingers crossed.  And the plan is that we are getting up at 3:00 a.m. to go over to the Space view Park to try to find a parking space.