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...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
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...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
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 we didn’t...
by Jenna Workman | Jul 7, 2021 | Florida State Parks
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach was a nice park with two sides to it. I pulled off of A1A and went right over to the oceanside to take a look. It was a pretty, breezy day and the area was very active. I got out of the car and I walked...