Our next camping trip of the season was to the Pensacola Naval Air Station’s Blue Angels FamCamp. There are two separate camping areas in this park. Anchor Cove is more rustic and some sites are very close to the bay. Battleship Row has paved sites with full utilities. Since we planned to stay at this campground for a couple of weeks, we reserved a site in Battleship Row for Rosie, our Airstream trailer.
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Battleship Row at Pensacola Naval
Air Station's Blue Angels FamCamp |
Reservations used to be similar to a hunting license. Individual sites were not reserved and you simply hunted for the best spot available.
Things are different now. You make reservations for Battleship Row or Anchor Cove and the office assigns your specific site a day to two before you arrive. We felt like we won the lottery when we checked in because our site was on the front row overlooking Perdido Bay.
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| Sign directing us to Battleship Row |
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| Our site "on the front row!" |
It looked like an Airstream convention on the front row as we were the third Airstream there when we arrived. In fact, our site was next to another Airstream trailer. We enjoyed talking to our Airstream neighbors. He recently retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and his family was living full-time in their 30 foot Airstream trailer. To make that couple more interesting, they had six children living with them in that small space. We guessed the oldest child was 10-12 years old and the youngest was barely one year-old. We could not imagine how eight people lived in that small space.
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Half of the neighbors children outside
during the presentation of "Colors" |
To the parent's credit, all six of the children appeared to be well behaved and helped with the chores around the campsite.
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| Rosie on Battleship Row |
We had about three days of rain while camping in this park. We had projects to keep us busy. I wondered how our neighbors kept their children entertained during the prolonged rain periods.
We normally see deer when camping in this FamCamp and we were not disappointed this time. In addition to deer, we saw raccoons, dolphins in the bay and baby herons in their nest near Anchor Cove.
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| Raccoon in a tree near the trash dumpster |
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| Heron nest |
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| Baby heron bird in the nest |
We always enjoy visiting Johnson Beach while camping at this FamCamp. The beach was beautiful and we enjoyed being there.
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| Entrance to Johnson Beach |
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| Boardwalk to the shore |
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| Becky along the Gulf of Mexico |
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| He is probably dreaming about the fish he can eat |
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No trip to Pensacola Naval Air Station is
completed without a fly-by from the Blue Angels |
Here are some specifics about this campground:
- There were two campgrounds (Battleship Row and Anchor Cove) and multiple loops in each campground
- Most sites had some space on both sides
- Our site was paved with asphalt with a concrete pad. This site was level.
- 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 2 bars 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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| Sunset along Perdido Bay |
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| A break in the rain clouds |
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| Selfie along the many trails in this campground |
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| Selfie along Perdidio Bay |
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We found a battleship that was once part of a
putt-putt course. A hurricane destroyed that course. |
