Friday, February 10, 2017

Mullet Camp on the Sebastian River, South Fork

We spent two nights at Mullet Camp, located in the Sebastian River Preserve State Park. The camp is located in red lettering on the state park map below:

                                    

Here's the satellite view:


Here's my initial take on the campground, recorded several weeks before the trip:

The campsite was only about 30 minutes away from our house, so we arrived at a reasonable hour to set up camp.

Unloading the vans

To make sure the kayaks didn't disappear on
us, we parked the vans back-to-back

The 0.5 mile trail is mostly sugar sand, which is...not particularly fun to hike through.


We saw lots of tracks in the sand: horses, coons, and many, many deer tracks.

We brought our wagon to haul supplies in, and it was definitely a help. We weren't particularly roughing it, on this trip, at least by primitive camping standards. You'll see in the pictures below that we brought some things that were rather luxurious.

The first load of supplies headed across the half-mile hike.

Lid's Ozark Trails tent set up on the left. Check out my
jury-rigged camping hammock!

Setting out all the stuff around the fire pit...SO MUCH STUFF

Mom and Liz putting up their tent. This
is the Alps Mountaineering Lynx.

Check out our super-cool bathroom! It's the Ozark Trails
Shower Tent, with a camp toilet derived from an old
bucket and this snap on toilet lid. We added a plastic
liner and dollar store cat litter. It worked a treat!

Basic rock fire ring

That collapsed figure is a very worn out Liz

The view through the mosquito netting, which is
just a cheap doublewide net from Walmart for
putting over cots

Cooking burgers for dinner. Gotta love cast iron skillets!


















It's a chilly morning for Florida!

That wagon was indescribably helpful. I think it was bought at
Home Depot. So worth having to haul it up onto the top of the
van for the drive.














A bit closer view of the bathroom


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