{"id":5760,"date":"2020-01-16T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:03:26","slug":"birthday-at-wp-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5760","title":{"rendered":"Birthday at WP Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We got to our next camp, W.P. Franklin Corp-of-Engineers campground on the Caloosahatchee River near Fort Myers by noon after doing our weekly grocery trip along the way. We like this camp because it is a small island by a river lock and has nice big campsites.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Camp11-Wide-2Bs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Camp11-Wide-2Bs.jpg\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Campsite 11 on the Caloosahatchee Waterway<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Camp11-WideView-2Bs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Camp11-WideView-2Bs-300x140.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"298\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"561\" data-original-width=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">View from Camp<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have been in four different campsites in other years, most had nice shade. The temperatures have been sunny and in the high 80\u2019s, so it is very hot with our south facing site.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TelegraphCreekDinosaur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TelegraphCreekDinosaur-300x169.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"619\" data-original-width=\"1100\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">River Dinosaur<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So on Wednesday we took our canoe out for a 6 mile paddle up and back on Telegraph Creek. We like to think this old fallen tree is a dinosaur.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gator-2Bup-2BTelegraph-2BCreek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gator-2Bup-2BTelegraph-2BCreek-300x169.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"506\" data-original-width=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Gator along Telegraph Creek<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We didn\u2019t see many birds but we saw at least 5 alligators, most were small.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JohnsBirthdayCakePeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JohnsBirthdayCakePeg-300x243.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"730\" data-original-width=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Birthday Dessert<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Our Phoenix Cruiser friends, Barry &amp; Sue are here, we have seen them here the past 3 years. When they found out it was my birthday they picked up a couple of great chocolate cake slices for Peggy &amp; me. We really enjoyed them for dessert.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I photo-shopped\u00a0the picture so I could show both of us enjoying our cake.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">On Thursday, we took a short 8 mile bike ride through the three developments next to the campground. It was getting hot again so we spent the rest of the day at camp.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got to our next camp, W.P. Franklin Corp-of-Engineers campground on the Caloosahatchee River near Fort Myers by noon after doing our weekly grocery trip along the way. We like this camp because it is a small island by a river lock and has nice big campsites. Campsite 11 on the Caloosahatchee Waterway View from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday at WP Franklin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[30,27,25,24,35],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1920trip","tag-bike","tag-canoe","tag-florida","tag-rv","tag-wp-franklin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","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=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}