#152 Mound Key

#152 Mound Key

July 1, 2017 The journey to Mound Key changed last minute because my city, DeLand, was voted best Mainstreet in all of the country and I just had to be there for the celebration! So instead of heading down the night before I woke up before the sun and headed down to...
Caladesi Island

Caladesi Island

To get to Caladesi Island State Park you must go to Honeymoon Island State Park and then take a ferry over to Caladesi Island. My ticket was $14 round trip and it was good for about a four hour stay on the island which was plenty of time for me. I arrived on the...
Don Pedro Island State Park

Don Pedro Island State Park

I found out pretty soon into my State Parking journey that some of the parks were only accessible by boat. It still did not occur to me to figure out which ones were on that list until the GPS kept trying to take me to them because my car does not transform into a...
Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park

Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park

According to the booklet, this park was not open to the public and I could not locate it on the Florida State Parks website. I was not sure how finding this was going to work out for me. I talked to a few state park rangers that I knew from work and got the address to...
Haw Creek Preserve State Park

Haw Creek Preserve State Park

Haw Creek Preserve State Park was only about 40 minutes from the house so after I got off of work, Quin and I headed over to our friend Bobby’s and found the truck loaded up with kayaks. There was also another Bobby waiting in the truck, he was visiting from New...