Back to "The Bus"

Today was the first day of the Annual Lion's Club Shrimp Festival on Estero Island . . . beginning with the Shrimp Parade down Estero Boulevard, which is the only through street on the island. For the parade, they close the only bridge to the mainland from 9:00 AM to noon. So we had to be off the island before 9:00, or be stuck there 'till after noon . . . and the storage facility where "The Bus" was located closed at 2:00 PM. So we were up and around early (for us) and off the island by 8:30 AM.

We stopped for a really great breakfast at the McGreggor Cafe, an outdoor restaurant on the main street through Fort Myers, then picked up "The Bus" and drove to the Upriver RV Park along the North bank of the Caloosahatchee River, which separates Fort Myers and North Fort Myers.


This is a really neat RV Park. We were assigned a nice shady site under a large spreading tree that dropped very small leaves continuously.

This also seems to be a very quiet park, but with lots of activities.










They have a channel in from the river with RV and Park Model sites along both sides. Each site has a boat dock and there is a boat ramp for residents to put their boats in and take them out of the river. The Caloosahatchee River flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Fort Myers, so these Park residents can travel by boat from here out into the Gulf.

This is really an attractive area of the Park.







This Park obviously caters to boaters and fishermen . . . but has some very large 'pull-thru' sites for big rigs. This part of the Park has lots of wide open spaces . . . and the 'pull-thrus' are 100 feet long.











Many of the 'big-rigs' here are towing toy haulers with luxury cars in them. I saw Mercedes and Corvettes which are pretty nice 'toys' for some people to be hauling in a trailer behind their RV.

The toy hauler some of these 'big-rigs' are towing are painted and stripped the same as the RV. Pretty fancy, huh? . . . and pretty expensive too! Of course, if you can afford a Mercedes or Corvette to haul in the trailer, I guess you can afford a special paint job.
















After walking around the various areas in the Park, I returned to the 'poor section' of the Park where our site is located. But we'll only be here for a couple of days as we are taking "The Bus" in to a dealer across the river in Fort Myers for some service work on Monday morning.

We are having a DC electrical problem. It is likely a problem with the house batteries (which are nearly new), cable connections, a ground connection, or the inverters. We'll hopefully find out Monday morning. I hope it can be repaired quickly (and inexpensively) so we can get on the road. Carole's ready to go home.