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[Crawfish]

2010 SE Family Campers Summer Rally
June 19 - 27
Anastasia State Park, Saint Augustine, Florida

For all of us history buffs, this is the oldest town in the United States.

You can start making reservations on July 19, 2009. Please make your reservations ASAP because the sites at Anastasia State Park go fast once the reservation window opens. We are trying to get everyone in the COQU loop so please make your request for your site in that loop. If or when that loop fills up just get any site available. Below is a link to the park and one to make reservations on ReserveAmerica. Hope to see everyone there.

Anastasia State Park, St. Augustine, FL

Reservation Link to ReserveAmerica

If you have never been to this park, Lee (sleecjr) took some pictures of a few of the sites and the loop we will be in. Just click on the link below to see the pictures and get an idea of what the park is like.

Pictures of Anastasia State Park (COQU Loop)

When you make your reservation please make a post and tell us which site you have and the dates you plan to attend. Thanks

This state park does not have sewer hookups, only electric and water. We are working on trying to get a company to come in at mid-week to pump out our black tanks. There is a bath house in the middle of this loop also. Several people will be bringing blue tanks to empty gray tanks for themselves and others who do not have blue tanks so gray tanks will not be an issue. All sites are shaded very nicely to help keep the heat down if it is hot.

Confirmed Reservations:

Campingnut - Site #131 Jun 19-27
Swanny - Site #122 Jun 12-26
Lester - Site #123 Jun 12-26
Crawfish - Site #124 - Jun 13-27
Needtomellowout - Site #119 - Jun 13-27
Jambalaya - Site #121 - Jun 13-27
Reverie - Site #130 - Jun 13-27
Having fun - Site #117 - Jun 12-26
Slingshot - Site #137 - Jun 14-28
Dreamtimers - Site #132 - Jun 19-27
Mike - Site #114 - Jun 19-27
Tommy - Site #129 - Jun 19-27
Hungry Camper - Site #138 - Jun
Our Passel of Kids - Site #107 - Jun 18 - 27
Minpinny - Site #127 - Jun 21 - 27
Outbacknewbie - Site #110 - Jun 23-26
Joe/GA - Site #111 - Jun 12-15
153Syr - Site #70 - Jun 22-25
Gwozmover - Site #136 - Jun 19-27
Outback Deland - Site #22 - Jun 22-23


Leon

[campingnut]

ok im going for 2 weeks. i have booked site 131 until the 19th of june.
so no one get my site 131 . i will add days later next week.
lamar

[NC Outbackers]

Sounds like a fun trip we will check on our vacation plans for next year. Is this rally replacing the Top Sail Rally?

[campingnut]

well yes, people wanted to try new places and see new things.
im not one to go anywhere the beach and the atlantic ocean meet.
i HATE IT. but i wanted to see new places too.
i can over look the nasty beach... its not the gulf and never will be.

but ive been told by many that this park is great. and tons of things to do in the old town.
we are going here also for our spring break next april.
so ill send back a report on anything we need.
i'll even see if i can get a honey wagon to come by atleast one day that week.

hope to see many more people this rally. we made lots of changes to go here.

thanks DAN & LEE for all the help and leg work on this place.

lamar

[Rollrs45]

campingnut, on Jul 11 2009, 12:59 PM, said:

ok im going for 2 weeks. i have booked site 131 until the 19th of june.
so no one get my site 131 . i will add days later next week.
lamar

So does that mean we can go ahead and reserve a site, or are you calling "dibs" on site 131? Should we go through reserve america or call the park?

Mike

[Crawfish]

Mike, you need to go through ReserveAmerica to make your reservations. If you call the park, they will just tell you to call ReserveAmerica. At least, that is what Topsail does and I am assuming all of the state parks will be that way.


Leon

[Rollrs45]

Spoke with Marcy and we're in.

I researched the sites and have decided on site 123 (unless it's booked by the time 6/19 rolls around) With a 37 foot 5'er my options appear to be limited.

Looking forward to it!!!!

Mike

[Crawfish]

Rollrs45, on Jul 12 2009, 11:46 AM, said:

Spoke with Marcy and we're in.

I researched the sites and have decided on site 123 (unless it's booked by the time 6/19 rolls around) With a 37 foot 5'er my options appear to be limited.

Looking forward to it!!!!

Mike

Mike, you can book your site on July 19th (next weekend). I didn't know if that was a type-o or not when you said 6/19.


Leon

[3LEES]

Crawfish, on Jul 12 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

Mike, you can book your site on July 19th (next weekend). I didn't know if that was a type-o or not when you said 6/19.


Leon

People make typos on this forum??? I thought we were perfect!

[campingnut]

well mike i made reservations hoping to go early .
well the rally will be a week later now.
i booked that site but will need to add days next saturday to make a full rally week.
i did get a big site and after april can swap site with someone who made need it more than i.

so if you will leave site 131 for me and we'll work it out later.
lamar

[swanny]

we just booked site 108 6/12 - 6/26. only site left big enough. I would like to have gotten a 40' site.

kevin

[Lester]

Mike,

You may need to go ahead and book another large site. I booked #123 yesterday.

Sorry,

Lester

[Mrs CampingNut]

We have found that sites are a little bigger than what they say. Hopefully we haven't totally goofed but we are going here for Spring Break and have only a 20' site. We called the park office and they said it should be fine . . . Remember that this place is actually wooded and these FL trees are some times crooked and such so you may have to park your vehicle sideways or something. Lee (sleejr) or Jon (FL Diesel) may be able to tell us better. Can someone who has been before post some feedback on the bathhouses? There have been some questions from some of the mrs.

p.s. We have a blue tank for anyone to use for gray water (no black please!!).


Carmen

[Crawfish]

Hey Lester it is great to hear you are coming. Sorry you could not make this years summer rally.


Leon

[3LEES]

Regarding Anastasia, I recently camped there and reviewed our stay here.

The bathhouses are well maintained. The shower heads are very nice...plenty of power. Lots of hot water. The bathhouse I used was not airconditioned, but I cannot vouch for the others.

Anastasia is not a resort park like Topsail. But it does have a few distinct advantages over Topsail.

-You can drive to the beach, park your car and walk a short distance to the water. You can also ride your bike, or walk. From COQU loop it's not very far.

-The same services available at Destin are available in St. Augustine, with one significant difference. Traffic on A1A or US1 is no where near the congestion of US 98 in Destin. Making a run to Walmart is 15-20 minutes.

-Camping World is about 20-25 minutes from the campground.

Dan

[Crawfish]

Lee emailed me and said he was going over to the park next week to pick out his site. He said he would take some pictures of some of the sites in our loop. We will get them up as soon as possible.


Leon

[Rollrs45]

Lester, on Jul 12 2009, 05:37 PM, said:

Mike,

You may need to go ahead and book another large site. I booked #123 yesterday.

Sorry,

Lester

No problem. It looks like site 122 will work for us. There aren't too many that are big enough to accommodate our 5'er.

So.................... Please......................... Nobody book 122 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks.

Mike

[Mrs. Need2mellowout]

We are in.

We have site 119 from June 13th to 27th. We will most likely be arriving on the Jun 16th so I will adjust reservation later.

Can't wait.

[Crawfish]

Just made our reservation. Site #124 from Jun 13th - 27th.


Leon

[Rollrs45]

Well, I was going to wait until the 19th, but when I saw how fast the sites were going we went ahead and did what everyone else is doing.

We have site 122 from 06/13-06/27. I guess we'll make our changes on the 19th.

Looking forward to it!!!!!

Mike