Scary Start to this Camping Trip!

We'd been in our campsite about ten minutes around 7:30 Friday evening when I heard a thunderous skidding and crash - dust rose so thick you couldn't see at first what happened. Right across from our campground a logging truck had gone off the road and rolled, losing a huge load of logs. The truck was on its side and jack-knifed nearly double. I was sure the driver must have been killed.
Cal walked over first as I didn't want to see someone killed in a wreck. He came back and told me the driver was okay - a miracle! I saw the driver go back in the over-turned cab for some reason - boy, what a scare!

CAMPGROUND CRITIQUE

A lovely site for a campground, although it was not as new or manicured as those we have visited by the Army Corp of Engineers. Right on the St. Joe River with fishing out your back door. Lots of fisherman float this swift little river I notice. We tried fishing a little but no luck. We saw an eagle up close and a mule deer - what a beautiful animal. We missed the moose in our camp by sleeping in Sunday AM.

Our camping neighbor (who I refer to as "the big talker") caught me heading to the bathroom and launched into a very long story about the moose - and I was

in kind of a hurry!

Sites all have power and water. There are no showers but vault toilets are nice and clean with lights.
Interesting things to do. I will definitely go back to Avery and get the history of the area. It was a huge logging area. Not much left anymore, but it once had a population of 3000-4000 people. It was on a train line (electric) between Chicago and Seattle, one of only two in the country. Men would stop to fish, hunt and gamble, and just wave a white handerchief when they wanted the train to stop for them!

We would definitely come back here. The heat pump in our trailer kept us comfortable and the power allowed us to watch movies.