We managed to arrive on Monday just as the office opened. After we checked in, we made a beeline for the popular sites along the Bay in the Battleship Row campground. Sites are not assigned at registration and it is up to the individual campers to find an open campsite to park in. We hoped that someone left from one of the waterfront sites on Sunday and there would be on open site for us. I guess that any waterfront sites that may have opened on Sunday were quickly taken by campers in the park willing to move.
We quickly scouted the campground and found a site on the second row behind the waterfront sites. I was about to connect the power when Becky noticed how close the sites were to each other in that area. We had selected one of the few sites in Battleship Row that was too close to the neighbors.
We unloaded our bikes and started looking for another site. This time we noticed a trailer pulling out of a site at the rear of the park. It backed up to the woods and had more space on either side. Best of all, it had shade. We quickly moved Rosie, our Airstream trailer, to this site. In addition, we felt a breeze at this site.
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| Rosie in Battleship Row |
There are two campgrounds in the Blue Angels Park. Battleship Row has paved roads and camping pads. It also has full hookups. Anchor Cove has more shade and the sites are similar to what you find at some state parks. The roads and sites are packed dirt with gravel. Anchor Cove has water and electric connections without sewer. Given a choice, we prefer to camp in Battleship Row and enjoy the paved sites and roads along with full hookups.
Our new site backed up to the “Disc Golf” course at this Navy recreation park. It was interesting to watch the golfers and their carts full of different disc sizes to play the area behind Rosie.
We could describe our visit to this FamCamp as an episode of camping in a succession of storms. More accurately, camping in severe storms. The first was a severe thunderstorm with winds gusting to 70 mph in the middle of the night. Another severe thunderstorm passed through a few nights later. One lightening bolt must have struck very near Rosie during that middle of the night storm.
We were concerned about all the rain and the flood warnings and asked the camp host if our site was prone to flooding. He said that the campground was built on swamp land and several sites were known to flood, but our site wasn’t one of them. We noticed after a night of more than four inches of rain, the camp host was correct. Our site wasn’t flooded, but we could see the six sites he indicated that were known to flood had three or four inches covering those sites.
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| Some sites flooded after four inches of rain one night |
There were eight Airstream campers in the Battleship Row and two Airstreams in Anchor Cove while we camped in the Blue Angels Park. Four were in our loop.
We went to Johnson Beach, a Federal Seashore Park several times while in Pensacola. It was great to walk along the beach and that gave Becky an opportunity to swim in the Gulf.
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| Enjoying Johnson Beach |
We also drove over to Fort Pickens National Seashore one day. We were surprised by the amount of water that covered the entrance road. We were also surprised at how high and rough the surf was at Fort Pickens.
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| Sign at entrance of Fort Pickens |
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| The roads heading to the campgrounds at Fort Pickens were flooded |
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| Water covered the road at multiple places |
We enjoyed seeing Fort Pickens and its campgrounds.
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| It was very windy and rough surf at Fort Pickens |
Here are some specifics about this campground:
- There were two campgrounds (Battleship Row and Anchor Cove) and multiple loops in each campground
- Our site was a back in
- Our site had shade
- Most sites had some space on both sides
- Our site was paved with asphalt with a concrete pad. We needed to use leveling tools to correct a side-to-side lean
- Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service
- Our site had a water connection
- Our site had a sewer connection
- The trash dumpsters were near the two laundry buildings in both campgrounds
- There was a bathhouse in the campground
- The park did not provide WiFi service
- AT&T provided 1 bar of 5G voice and data service over our campsite
- We were able to watch ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and PBS using Rosie’s TV antenna. Digital channels seen were Antenna-TV, Bounce, Charge, Comet, Court-TV, Cozi, Dabl, Grit, ION, LAFF, ME-TV, Outlaw and Rewind
- There were restaurants and shopping nearby
- This was a pet friendly park
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| Riding our bikes at Blue Angels Park |
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| Sunset |
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| Sunset along Battleship Row |
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| The sign said this was the Bridge of Doom |
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| Selfie while riding our bikes |
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