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Show Notes for Episode #206 August 22, 2018 of Roadtreking - The RV Podcast

WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK

MIKE

We’re still down on Okaloosa Island on the Florida panhandle’s Emerald Coast. We’ll be here another couple weeks, doing weekend tailgating trips to Georgia to watch our grandson, Matthew play high school football.

JENNIFER

Yup. School has been in session down south since early August. I don’t know how the kids play when the temperatures are in the 90’s and the humidity nearly matches.

MIKE

We have Bo with us. He stayed in the RV with the AC on last week while we attended Matthew’s first game. But they take football very seriously down here and whenever one of the teams scored a touchdown they fired off a canon… a canon!.... and they also launched fireworks at the beginning and end of the game. Bo is not a huge fan of fireworks or canon blasts!

JENNIFER

Nor does he like the heat and humidity. We take him out every morning and night for exercise. But even at 7 am, the temperature is in the mid-eighties. Same right after sunset. We visit dog parks in Fort Walton Beach and Destin FL but really have to watch him because with his Norwegian Elkhound double coat, he can overheat very easily. Most if the days he stays in our condo, soaking up the AC.

MIKE   

Speaking of Bo and the heat and relying on AC, I’m anxiously awaiting a new pet safety temperature monitoring system that I’ll be installing in the RV this week. We have tried list of different systems over the years. But none are quite as reliable or a rugged as I would like. The new one is the most pricey one yet but I’ve come to the conclusion that you get what you pay for and when it comes to a pet safety in an RV bargain prices seldom bring satisfactory results.

Those who subscribe to our RV Newsletter got a heads up about this system in an email over the weekend but for everyone else, I’ll show more in a video I’m planning for sometime next week.

JENNIFER

There’s a lot of continuing talk down here about the red tide. It has devasted Gulf of Mexico beaches in south Florida all summer and shows no signs of easing off. Several have asked us if the red tide is affecting the beaches up here in the Florida panhandle. It is not. There is no indication that it is moving north at all. There is a lot of sea grass or seaweed in the water up here this week but those are seasonal in nature and usually don’t last long. The red tide further south is horrendous. It’s been going on for 10 months now.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee said the red tide outbreak continues to occur on both coastal and inshore sites from Manatee to Collier counties, over 130 miles of coastline.

MIKE

The outbreaks have caused respiratory and other health problems in humans. It has also caused the massive kill off of marine wildlife. Over 100 tons of dead animals have washed on up beaches in the last few months, including 12 dolphins in the span of just one week. The current red tide began in October 2017 but has intensified in the l...