Falling Waters State Park

Falling Waters State Park

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...
Alfred B Maclay Gardens State Park

Alfred B Maclay Gardens State Park

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...
Cayo Costa

Cayo Costa

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...
Estero Bay Preserve State Park

Estero Bay Preserve State Park

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...
Collier-Seminole State Park

Collier-Seminole State Park

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...