Naval Station, Mayport, FL

Whenever in the Jacksonville, FL area we always try to spend a week or two at the Pelican Roost RV Park. It’s located all the way out on the St. Johns River south jetties, next to the fire fighting school. The 18 hole golf course has a true links environment and fishing from the jetties is always productive no matter the time of year.

The only large sites are on the front row and very hard to schedule into without some far in advance planning. We have never had one. The park is always busy and has a nice lounge area for all the visitors.

Every thing that comes and goes on the water from Jacksonville goes by here. Lots of folks will spend their days setting out on the jetties taking pictures of the passing ships and boats of all sizes. The Naval Station “Mayport Basin” is just off the RV park’s entrance. It is currently being dredged to hold a new carrier. The John F. Kennedy CV-67 was the last one stationed here.

Here are a collection of pictures we have taken during our many stays at this RV park with it’s prime location.

This is the park office and a couple of street pictures.

You can click on any of the pictures to get a larger view.











This was the best site we ever got assigned to. It's on the third row and backed up to a ball field.




This series of pictures is of our worst site assignment. It's a FHU on the second row with just enough room for extending the slides. My son was visiting for a day of fishing and couldn’t get over just how close we were parked to our neighbors.









When it comes to site assignments all RVs are equal.



This view is of the first and second row sites.




If you're unlucky enough to be at the RV park during a North Easter just bring in your slides and hunker down






There are always people fishing from the jetties. The tanker was waiting on the tide and a pilot.





Nice picture of the JFK moored in the Mayport Basin. Sorry, I don't know the names of any of the other ships.











This smallish container carrier is headed for Blunt Island.




Just about every kind of vessel will pass by here sooner or later. This one is headed for downtown Jacksonville.











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