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Date Visited: 1/13/2020 In the Florida panhandle where the Wakulla and St. Marks River meets, sits a National Landmark called San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park. For over 500 years, from the Spanish period through the civil war, this was a strategic landmark. In 1679 the first wooden fort was built. It housed 45... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 1/12/2020 Opened in 1940 as one of the original nine state parks in the Florida Park Service, O'Leno (Old Leno), is a beautiful and peaceful place to stay. With 20 miles of hiking, biking, equestrian trails within the 6000 acres that encompass O'leno (and its sister park the River Rise Preserve State Park),... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 1/12/2020 I love big trees! Maybe it is the kid in me, or the desire to live like Robinson Crusoe in a treehouse atop a giant tree on a deserted isle, but when I discover a new one I haven't visited before and get the chance to go see one of these monsters... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 1/12/2020 Okay, we all know I'm a little overweight, out of shape, over 50 and have an ongoing battle with heart-disease and diabetes, so I almost talked myself out of visiting this state park because I knew there were a number of stairs I'd have to ascend after descending to see the sink... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 1/6/2020 & 08/03/2022 (Camped) For hundreds of years, Blue Spring and the surrounding area provided food, clothing, shelter and the materials needed to fabricate tools and weapons to the Timucuan Indians. Later European settlers and pioneers began moving into the area and by the mid-1800s, most of the Indians had been killed or driven... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 12/31/2019 Standing as the focal point in this 5600-acre state park is one of the largest Live Oak trees in the South. The Fairchild oak is estimated to be between 400-600 years old and is a member of one of the largest remaining stands of Southern Live Oak forest along Florida's East Coast.... Continue Reading →
Primal, dangerous and powerful; these are the words that describe the woman bold enough to wear this substantive necklace. Inspired by the sights and sounds of the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida this is one of my favorite pieces. The crackled effect on the green agate stones evoked in me memories of gator... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 12/1/2019-12/3/2019 & Various other times This was a hard post to write and I've put it off for several weeks. This camping trip we took in December of 2019 would be the first and last time I was able to go camping with my dad as an adult. Originally, I had not planned... Continue Reading →
Last week we mentioned that the fish stopped biting in our little honey hole. So we decided to try some bank fishing and found a couple that were keepers. https://youtu.be/Use51v8nyS0 Now these fish are nowhere near as impressive as Mr. McGee's Redfish in the video below. It's not the best video because this was taken... Continue Reading →
Two days in this honey hole produced enjoy fish for a month! But as quickly as they came in... they were gone. https://youtu.be/v7o9dPlV1bQ The next week we didn't catch a thing. So, we moved around and tried our luck shore fishing where we had a little success. Tune in next Friday to see that video... Continue Reading →
We love our little SUV, but we knew that taking a 30-day road trip that would lead us through the hot and dusty desert of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, to the cold nights at Grand Canyon National Park and every other stop along the way of our 7155-mile round trip adventure, we would... Continue Reading →
Because we are years from retirement, we can't camp all the time. We'd like to travel full-time, but it just isn't possible right now. So, what do we do when we aren't camping? Well, we take the local trails when the weather is right and we fish! As we catch you up to current events... Continue Reading →
We took the plunge and decided to start publishing videos on our YouTube Channel. The older videos are about as crude as you can get. But as time goes on, and we invest in better equipment, they will improve. The first thing we will be posting are some fishing videos like this one here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0x_69nOSU... Continue Reading →
Date Visited: 12/9/2019 Our next stop was one of those places were you want to visit and learn as much as you can, but you also feel as if you are trespassing on hallowed ground. This 61 acre Pre-Columbian site consist of six mounds dispersed around the property. There are burial mounds, temple/platform mounds, plazas... Continue Reading →
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