March 13 - 15, 2016
Buccaneer State Park
Waveland, MS

Today we traveled another 185 miles west on I-10 crossing Alabama and Mississippi and stopping just short of the Louisiana border. We went through a big tunnel in Mobile and that was exciting. For a Sunday there was a lot of traffic but it went pretty well. We got off I-10 and went south about 15 miles to the Gulf Coast. We had gotten conflicting directions on which road to take to get to the park so I called them and they gave me a completely different road to take.   When you have a 2 ton rig that is 9 foot wide, over 13 feet tall, and is over 60 feet long hitched to the truck, you have to be cautious. I wrote down the directions because my GPS was not routing me the recommended way. When we finally got past the point where I had to ignore the GPS, there was a street sign that indicated what appeared to be the correct street I was looking for...so I took it. Suffice it to say it ended up being the wrong street and it took me over a very high centered railroad track. I heard a slight noise and thought I might have just slightly scraped bottom, but once we got to the park and set up we noticed some stress fractures in the fiberglass underneath the nose.

This one is the worst but there is another one on the opposite side. The king pin must have flexed enough to stress the fiberglass skin causing it to crack. This should be a minor repair but being my first mistake to cause damage I'm pretty upset about it. Needless to say I'll go out of my way next time to make sure I get to the correct road.

Buccaneer State Park was rebuilt in 2004 after being wiped out by Katrina. You may recall that Waveland, MS was where it came ashore.

This is a picture from the entrance and the water in the corner is the Gulf.

This is a great spot for families especially in the summer because they have a couple of pools, a water slide,  and even a wave park. Pretty unusual for a State Park. The facilities are nice and all roads and sites are paved, however it's pretty tight for big rigs...better for trailers and smaller rigs. All sites are back in and most appear to have a generous slope making it difficult to level the rig. We placed 3, 2x12s under each jack.

We're in a small loop with several big A class motorhomes.

Here's another view of the Gulf from the front entrance.

We're heading into New Orleans tomorrow to do some sightseeing so I'll do another update then.