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...
#124 Lower Wekiva River Preserve

#124 Lower Wekiva River Preserve

March 4, 2017 Honestly, I was not even going to write about this park because there really is not a lot I have to say about it. Andrew and I stopped at it on our way to Orlando to visit my mom for her birthday. My dad told me a few months back that there was not a...
Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park

Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park

It was getting down to the wire on the state park challenge I have bestowed upon myself and after reviewing the parks I had traveled to, I noticed I missed this park in the Jacksonville area when I went State Parking with my Uncle Barry. When Brian Scott informed that...
Gamble Rogers & the Full Moon Experience

Gamble Rogers & the Full Moon Experience

April 2019 About a year after my first visit to that park I heard they did a full moon rising event. I asked Amanda if she wanted to take her boys out there to hear about the full moon and watch it come up over the water. The night we decided to go was very cloudy so...