by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
July 16, 2017 I started another journey to South Florida to visit all of the parks I missed my first time down. Although Okeechobee Battlefield was not actually on the way, I knew this trip was going to be my only chance to see it before my year was up. The road to...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
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...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
June 24, 2017 It was very apparent that summer had arrived. The first time I went to Honeymoon Island, I drove right in! This time there were 3 lanes to choose from and each one of them had about 8 cars in them. The ferry to Caladesi Island is accessed once you get...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
June 24, 2017 I knew I had to catch a ferry to Caladesi Island but I needed to hit a couple of parks before that one. I heard you needed a boat to get to Don Pedro Island so I got a raft and I figured I would just paddle on over. It seems like they have built a land...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
June 17, 2017 According to the booklet, this park was not open to the public and I could not locate it on the Florida State Parks website so I was not sure how this was going to work out for me. I talked to a few state park rangers that I work with and got the address...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
June 15, 2017 The day before, Quin and I had such a great time exploring the area that Waccasassa Preserve was in that we simply ran out of time and could not get over to Haw Creek Preserve and boy am I so happy things turned out the way they did! After I got off of...