Now We Know Why They Call This Place "Seabreeze RV Park"

Yes, indeed!  According to our weather app the wind has been at a constant 15-20 mph all day today.  The temperature has hovered around 70.  The wind chill makes it just uncomfortable enough that sitting outside is not an option - at least for me.  Roger found a spot on the leeward side of the RV, put on a sweater and a hat and got his cup of tea so he could be outside listening to his audio book!   We had previously thought  that if this turned out to be a nice place that perhaps we might spend some of our wintering time here, but now we are thinking NOT!!  

The RV park itself is one of the nicer Navy ones we have visited in our travels.   It's clean, has lots of grass, has nice landscaping, and the laundry facilities are free!!  The park, though, is the nicest thing about this base.  ( Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach )  There isn't much here.  No commissary and exchange, we didn't see housing, but lots of military looking buildings along one road or two.  The park is situated next to an estuary that has signs that it is part of the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge and is a heron habitat.  We've seen egrets and tri-color herons, so the preserve is doing it's job, I guess. 

Maggie and I did see this sign along the walking trail.  We were surprised that we didn't hear any last night and we haven't seen any during the day.  They should be abundant as there has to be hundreds of ground squirrels for "dinner."  

As I mentioned yesterday, we got a nice spot at the end of the park on the outside corner.  The laundry and bathing facilities are in that building behind the tail of that RV on the right.  Nice and convenient.

These trees with the interesting and colorful bark are along the perimeter of the park along the walking path. Anyone know what kind it is?  The bark is really fascinating. 

We went out for lunch and to "make groceries" this morning, but the rest of the day we have been resting after yesterday's drive.  We didn't have to go far to find a shopping area with the basics - Target, Ralph's (grocery) and a Rubio's for lunch.  I washed a load of dark clothes - to make sure that Roger's jeans from yesterday's sewer event got clean and did some crochet while Roger sat outside. 

So, I fibbed (unintentionally) about the sewer issue not being a rookie mistake.  After sitting here most of the evening trying to figure it out, Roger went back out and checked all the valves again. It seems he had left the kitchen gray tank valve open
(it's located apart from the other valves and he missed it) and a day's worth of gray water had dropped down into the drain line and sloshed around all day, cleaning off all the stuff that had accumulated on the sides of the pipes over the years that apparently never really came totally clean.  So, when he opened the valve to hook up the sewer hose, it all came pouring out!  That's why there was so much there.  He'll remember next time to close that valve, you can be sure of that!

Then it was my turn to not be on top of things.  We have a indoor/outdoor thermometer set that we use with the RV.  We set the transmitter up somewhere outside so that it is in the shade and we get a fairly accurate reading.  I asked Roger this morning if he picked up the transmitter in Las Vegas before we left.  He said he hadn't see it, so no.  I told him I had placed it back between the tires in the shade on the passenger side so if he didn't pick it up, then we must have run over it when we left Las Vegas.  (This would not be a first time for doing that - We have gone through a lot of transmitters over the ten years of RVing!) We figured we would need to get a new one while we were out today.  Then we noticed that the thermometer inside was telling us that we were receiving an outdoor reading. Hmmm.   How can that be? They certainly aren't powerful enough to send signals from LV to LA - even if they survived being run over!   Well, as it turns out, I had put the transmitter out yesterday - only it was here and not Las Vegas - and it was working just fine.  We seriously think I'm losing my mind! 

Tomorrow we will do some exploring while on a quest to find somewhere that sells the toilet chemicals we use!!  (You know it all revolves around the sewer!)  We will connect with Stephanie tonight to get our instructions for Wednesday and graduation.  She is busy today and tomorrow with work and her Mom and brother.   Her dad arrives tomorrow.  Wednesday is graduation and then everyone else goes home on Thursday.  We are staying until Sunday so we have a couple of days that we hope to hang out with Steph and Pierce - working around their work schedules.