by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
I was super excited to see Falling Waters State Park. Honestly, I had no idea Florida even had waterfalls and that park housed the state’s highest waterfall. According to the state parks website, Falling Waters Sink is a 100-foot-deep, 20-foot-wide cylindrical...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
I am a gardener by trade because I am obsessed with plants, all plants, so when a state park has gardens in its name I get a bit excited. When I arrived at Alfred B McClay Gardens I discovered Casey was not allowed on the garden grounds and I immediately felt...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
Waking up before the sun is easy to do when you have a State Parking goal to accomplish! As the time dwindled down on my State Parking year I found myself doing it more and more because the parks were further away and most of them required sometime of watercraft to...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
Ok, I am going to be painfully honest about my trip to Estero Bay Preserve State Park. I woke up very early that day, after spending a very late night visiting with my friend George, at his favorite watering holes in Siesta Key. Casey and I woke up, watched the...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
George and I drove into Collier-Seminole State park and knew right away it was a park best explored on a kayak or canoe. It is within one of the largest mangrove swamps in the world. If we did not have Casey with us we may have considered renting a vessel to paddle...