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...paying tourists plies up and down the dirt road along the back of the Library building. Just behind the wax museum is a Micro Zoo ("100's of Microscopic Animals and Plants. Projected Alive...A Living Educational Exhibit"). Not surprisingly, there are several fast food stores. And two private campgrounds ("Feel free to inspect our restrooms"). In the campground I looked over, 33 Winnebago-type mobile homes were registered...
...likely to be available for a small fee. Such basics as running water, electricity and sewage lines are taken for granted; athletic facilities and organized social activities are common. Says Maxine Bessemer, who owns a motor home and lot on Florida's Nettles Island, the largest commercial campground in the country: "I don't know what you'd call this, but it isn't camping...
Mobile Retirement. What it is depends on who you are and what you want. For older people, trailers and deluxe campsites provide a peripatetic retirement in which vistas can be changed by a few days' drive to another campground. For younger families on holiday, the camps offer constant amusement for both parents and children without the high cost of restaurant eating and hotel rooms. To many couples like the Bessemers, who travel only ten miles from their home in Jensen Beach with their two children, the resorts are a togetherness exercise. "I like to have the kids where...
Many of the regional delegations are now discussing the possibility of evacuating the campground for regional movement centers prior to Monday morning...
...further problem is expected this weekend, as an anticipated 75,000 to 100,000 additional people crowd into the campground...