Car show

There was a car show on Sunday at the Homestead Bayfront Park down the road from us. Millie and I have been looking forward to going since we saw it advertised several weeks ago. The waterfront park is neighbored on both sides by Biscayne Bay National park but is owned and operated by Dade County. It has a small marina, large boat ramp, and a swimming beach on Biscayne Bay.

1 1/2 mile backup to enter the park

waiting to enter the park

Canal Street is a long straight road that accesses both the county and national parks, it is the only access and egress from both parks. Long before we reached the entrance, traffic backed up on the two lane road. I measured it on a map later and estimate the backup was 1 ½ miles long. Even after we reached the toll booth and paid to go in the park we were still stuck in the line of cars. The parking lot was full and they let cars enter as others left. One car out and one car in, as you can imagine it took a while to get to the bay front area where the car show was. 

a miniature corvette

a nice 57 chevy

Camero parked by the bay

T bucket priced at $16K

Hydraulic Mexican jumping cars

Classic cars and hot rods are cool, but not cool enough for me to come back here to see them. When we left the line of cars waiting to enter was just as long as when we arrived some four hours ago.

They started bringing in equipment on Saturday

Back at the campground construction has commenced in the field behind us. We still don't know what they are building, I'm going to walk across and ask someone before we leave for the season. So far all they are doing is scraping off the topsoil, if you can call it that. Under the thin layer of dirt is a porous plateau of karst limestone. It is under the entire state, but most areas have more soil over it. 

Scraping the soil from the limestone base

It's making a lot of dust, I was planning on washing the motorhome this week, I'm glad I haven't done that yet. We'll miss the convenience of parking our jeep behind the motorhome, almost everyone on our street parked back here.