{"id":4921,"date":"2016-11-17T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:53:53","slug":"settled-down-for-a-week-at-ocean-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4921","title":{"rendered":"Settled down for a week at Ocean Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ocean-252520Pond_thumb-25255B2-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Ocean Pond\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ocean-252520Pond_thumb-25255B2-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean Pond\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We left Jekyll Island at 7 AM on Wednesday and after a quick grocery shopping trip we arrived at Osceola National Forest\u2019s Ocean Pond campground at 10 AM. Since this is the weekend before Thanksgiving we knew finding a campsite with electricity would be difficult, but they have sites with water only and that is where we first pulled into. I got on my bike and found that two campers just left the electric sites, so we quickly moved to the site with power for a week. They take no reservations here, so it is first come gets campsite. With our Golden Eagle pass it is only $12\/night.<a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/OP-252520Campsite-2525208_thumb-25255B3-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Ocean Pond Campsite 8\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/OP-252520Campsite-2525208_thumb-25255B3-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean Pond Campsite 8\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The campsites are large and there is a very strong ATT 4G signal here but no Wi-Fi.<a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Peggy-Ready-Aim_thumb-25255B8-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Peggy get Ready &amp; Aim\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Peggy-Ready-Aim_thumb-25255B8-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy get Ready &amp; Aim\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a nice rest in my hammock as the temperature finally warmed to near 80<sup>o<\/sup>F.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday we decided to take a little 9 mile round trip bike ride to the site of the biggest civil war battle in Florida at <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Peggy-Fire_thumb-25255B4-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Peggy Fires\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Peggy-Fire_thumb-25255B4-25255D-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy-Fires\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park. Peggy tried out the cannon to see if she would have been a good soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Jekyll Island at 7 AM on Wednesday and after a quick grocery shopping trip we arrived at Osceola National Forest\u2019s Ocean Pond campground at 10 AM. Since this is the weekend before Thanksgiving we knew finding a campsite with electricity would be difficult, but they have sites with water only and that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settled down for a week at Ocean Pond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1617trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}