I’m a bit behind on my blog updates as we are currently in
Broken Bow Oklahoma. But I’ll bring you up to date, one step at a time.
We left Punta Gorda Florida on March 31, spending 1 night at
Payne’s Prairie State Park in Micanopy Florida and 2 nights at Alliance Hill RV
Park in the Florida Panhandle (both of these locations were covered in previous
updates this past January).
On April 3rd we arrived at Paul B. Johnson State
Park near Hattiesburg Mississippi for 2 nights. This is a beautiful park and we
had a beautiful lake front campsite on Lake Geiger. The park lies in the
Mississippi Pine Belt, so called for the abundance of Long Leaf Pine trees in
the area, and is named after the forty-sixth governor of Mississippi. The park
has both camping and cabin rentals.
Geiger Lake, once known as Lake Shelby, was constructed
during the mid-1940s using German prisoner of war labor by POW’s housed at nearby
Camp Shelby.
The brightly colored duck in one of the
following photos is a Muscovy duck, which seemed to be everywhere. They must be
used to people feeding them as they quickly approach when we exited the camper.
The red fleshy parts around the face on Muscovy ducks are called caruncles. They're
also called a face mask. Caruncles help Muscovites keep their feathers clean
when they dabble in mud.
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| Park Entrance |
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| Spillway crossing on the way to the campground. That's a carved bear on the right. |
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| Campsite |
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| View from one side of campsite |
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| View from rear of campsite |
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| View from other side of campsite |
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| One of the cabins available for rent |
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| Closer look at carved bear which are found throughout the park |
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| Turtles |
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| Muscovy duck |
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