Gamble Rogers at Flagler Beach

As we continued our travels along Florida’s Atlantic coast, we attempted to take our campervan on Daytona Beach, but the access areas we attempted were more affected by high tide, so getting onto the beach wasn’t going to happen today. We continued to Flagler Beach and the highly rated Gamble Rogers State Park (full name is a mouthful: “Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach“). Super nice and clean campsite. Our site backed up against a bay (either Smith Creek or Halifax Creek, according to the maps), but there was lots of brush. We did get in a long walk on the beach that night and Douglas managed to loose his snap on shades for his glasses and this made him sad. He did do his best to try and find them that night in the dark and the next morning. Somethings the ocean just takes stuff as offerings.

This campground has a lovely beach with an area for RV’s right on the beach

Always release the femalesFriends of the Park

The next morning, two husband and wife teams and members of the Friends of the park, held a packed free session all about blue crabs and how to catch them. We even got to catch and release some using a chicken neck.

We had so much fun that we bought two crab traps for the van and our next opportunity to “git crabbin‘.” It does take about 12 crabs to have enough meat for a one person meal.

Test yourself- the diagram on the right is a male crab. Now look at the two live crabs that are being held up…which is the male?

One of the crab trapper presenters told us about the best place to get stone crab claws in Ormond Beach, at Hulls Seafood. so we picked up a couple of lbs. Also stopped by the local farmer’s market to stock up on fresh fruit & veggies.