https://youtu.be/mHb3s37ceas King is 13 a year old Groenendael Malinois, but you wouldn't know it by the way he acts. As with all Mals, he forever thinks he is two.
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Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge
Date Visited: 12/07/2020 Once home to the hunter-gatherer tribes of the Tequesta, Jobe, Ais, and Jaega, this 1091 acre Federally Endangered Florida sand pine scrub is home to a number of federally listed plants and animals. Established September 30, 1969, this refuge system is actually divided into two parts that are split by the Indian... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Dickinson State Park: Florida
The Beginning of our Next Road Trip: Destination Everglades National Park After spending several months day-tripping and exploring some of Florida's great state parks, we were ready to see what else the National Park System had to offer, and we really wanted to spend a week or so camping. With that virus thing still in... Continue Reading →
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State park
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 →
O’Leno State Park
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 →
Cellon Oak Park – Florida Champion Tree – Live Oak
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 →
Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park: Florida’s Miniature Rainforest
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 →
Blue Spring State Park
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 →
Bulow Creek State Park
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 →
Eternally Verdant
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 →
Tomoka State Park
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 →
One Fish, Two Fish… Redfish… Black Drum?
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 →
When they’re biting!
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 →
DIY Campervan Conversion – Ford Econoline E350 Super duty Van
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 →
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