20 September 2016
So much for gentle raindrops on the tent lulling you to sleep. Around 9 pm the bottom fell out. I doubt Noah was subjected to this amount of rainfall in so short of time. It was deafening inside the tent. It finally tapered off around 4 am.
I was more worried about the wind. You could really hear it roar in the tree tops but for some reason, it never reached ground level. I had staked the tent and fly fairly securely but the one complaint given about the tent on the REI website was the lack of stability in wind of over 50 mph. Everything was ship-shape when I checked the tie downs this morning.
The good news was the rain had stopped by the time I got up. I had to pack a wet tent but at least I didn’t have to do it in the rain. Tomorrow will be dry out day for the tent – if it doesn’t rain here.
The great news is the tent never leaked! I’ve been in downpours in tents many times and all of them leak. This one didn’t let a single drop in. I even kept the screens open for ventilation and I still didn’t get any rain inside. More importantly, there was no condensation inside. I’ve never seen the inside of a tent after a rainstorm that didn’t have some inside condensation. This tent was dry to the touch.
I always learn something new on each trip. The one thing I should have packed was door mats for the tent. It got really dirty and gritty inside with all the rain and foot traffic. I thought to bring rugs for the inside but not for the outside.
The table I purchased from REI was great. I may even purchase a second so one will hold cooking gear and the other will serve as a reading table (for the lantern) and to hold my wine glass.
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On the way in to the park the first day, I saw a single whitetail doe along the side of the park road. The same occurred the second day. On the way out this morning, a herd of whitetails crossed the road in front of me.
Although this is bear territory in Florida, I never saw one but did see several trees that had been clawed to get grubs. I assume it was a bear since the trees were rotten and pretty much shredded.
The trip back was uneventful except for the area around Palm Beach. It seems everyone on I-95 is trying to get to the Florida Turnpike and everyone on the Turnpike is trying to get to I-95. My GPS wanted to route me to I-95 at Jupiter, Florida (you can see I-95 from the Turnpike there) but decided there were traffic jams on 95. It then kept me on the Turnpike until there were traffic jams on that. I opted for bumper-to-bumper 6 lanes of traffic from Palm Beach to home on 95 rather than bumper-to-bumper traffic on 2 lanes of the Turnpike. I’ll never know if I made the right decision.
Added to the traffic problem was five cars were in a race south on the Turnpike and really put everyones’ lives at risk. They were even trying to pass each other on the right of the traffic lane just to get ahead of the other car. The speed limit on the Turnpike is 70 mph and I figure they were weaving in and out at 90 mph.
I thoroughly enjoyed this trip. The hike was great, albeit a little long, and the camping part was a lot of fun. Even dishwashing was not too onerous of a chore. I actually learned to relax, sitting in my REI folding chair, chilling with a glass of wine and listening to the wind in the trees, the owls calling out to one another, and getting to see constellations forever occluded in south Florida.
