tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81342630477176224462024-03-12T20:49:54.851-07:00Where's Liz? 2017Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-25213320008733910752017-12-29T07:47:00.000-08:002017-12-29T07:47:04.936-08:002017, Where did it go?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did make it to New Orleans in early October for a get-together with my LA and TX friends. I stopped along the way to enjoy the Gulf beaches and some National historic sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fort Pickens National Seashore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Orleans in no particular order: St. Louis Cathedral</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't visit New Orleans without having beignets at cafe du Monde.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pink Flamingos doing what we do best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yes it rained some of the time. Streetcar in the French Quarter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rain didn't stop our fun though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More French Quarter scenes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">French Market</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I left early because I needed to evacuate another hurricane...headed toward New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. So back home to Dowling Park where I tried my hand at planting a butterfly garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And raising caterpillars.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was hiking to do on the many trails.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birdie came to buy my car and play awhile. We kayaked.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, when I'm with Birdie, we'll go birding too. This was with the Audubon Society at Alligator Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found out I can stack 3 kayaks in my RV, even if I can only seat two passengers. My new friend Shirley didn't seem to mind taking the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More paddling with friends on the Suwannee River.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A visit from Carol. It's nice to have a handy RV park for all my RVing friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a trip to Skidaway Island State Park in Georgia to spend Thanksgiving with Jennifer and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in Dowling Park there was a lot going on in preparation for Christmas. There was a decorated golf cart parade...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many special events and I missed some of them with my coming and going.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Festive decorations and lights everywhere.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent a week in Ocala for doctor appointments, but had time for lunch with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My brother and sister-in-law, Roy and Tiny came to visit.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I traveled to Hillsborough River State Park near Zephyrhills to spend Christmas with family. There were hiking trails there too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the family that was able to gather at Heather's.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to Church Street Christmas in Dade City to see the lights and enjoy the music.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I kayaked the Hillsborough River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I am back home at Advent Christian Village. I have grown to love the place and the people here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were a lot of changes for me in 2017. I look forward to whatever God has in his will for me in 2018. Stay tuned...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of changes for me this year. When I left my sister's in MA, I returned to my new home in Dowling Park, FL in order to trade in my RV for a new, smaller, Roadtrek. There were several reasons for doing this, but one was to be able to keep it by my home and not have to store it when in Florida. "Pearl" is only 19' long and fits in any normal-sized parking space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also wanted to be able to bring my kayak with me without having to tow a car to carry it on. The open aisle in the new Roadtrek will allow me to slide it right in and secure it between the beds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the refrigerator up high and the bathroom in the front, I can still access all the areas when the kayak is inside. Of course at campgrounds, I will take it out and secure it in my site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love the magnetic screen door I ordered for the side door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some other inside pics: The roomy refrigerator and pot drawer beneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A pull-out pantry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The front bathroom doors opposite the sliding door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wet bath </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just a few days after the purchase it was apparent that Hurricane Irma was coming our way. The mobile home park was soon to be under mandatory evacuation. So I quickly stowed my loose outside stuff and loaded up the new RV to evacuate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I left before the crowds did, and did not use the Interstate evacuation routes, so it was smooth going.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle was my trusty co-pilot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even the little bit of I-10 I traveled was easy at 8 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Very little traffic through GA to AL on US 84.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even the two-lane highways were easy traveling, and I was loving how the new Roadtrek handled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My destination was a campground on the Natchez Trace in TN. This is one of my favorite routes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are many places to pull off and go for a short hike, or view an historical site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle and I were ready to stretch our legs along Sweetwater Branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that short respite we were on our way again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were meeting my sister-in-law, Carol, at Meriwether Lewis National Park campground. I got there first and set up in a nice paved pull-through site with a little bit of sunlight for my solar panels...which performed perfectly while I was there. Notice where I put the kayak. No water to paddle here, but it is out of the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carol, who evacuated her mobile home in NC, arrived later and set up in the site next to me. They are very spacious sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was pleasantly cool, and Thistle and I enjoyed many of the hiking trails while here. This is a portion of the Old Trace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Grinder's Stand is where Meriwether Lewis stopped for the night while traveling up the Trace and died mysteriously on October 11, 1809. He was buried in the adjacent cemetery. A monument was placed in his memory some time later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another inside picture of my RV. The front seats swivel around and a small table fits between them. There is also a place for a table between the beds in back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the storm passed and I heard power was restored to my home in Florida, I set out in that direction....back down the Trace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where traffic was heavy with deer and turkeys...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I reached my first 1000 miles on that trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stopped for a night at a nice Corps of Engineers Park near Montgomery, AL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was tempted to stay and kayak here, but the need to get home was stronger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was very fortunate that there was no damage to my mobile home. The big tree limb you see here was removed from my neighbor's roof. As far as I know that is the only structural damage that occurred in the village, but several large trees were lost, and branches were everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cleanup continues, but things are getting back to normal. I am now off on a planned trip along the Gulf Coast to New Orleans. More on that in a future blog post, and I still have several to catch up on from this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Memories of my summer in the Adirondacks and Massachusetts with my sister: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Adirondacks of New York are known for their lakes and ponds that are perfect for paddling. And having a lightweight boat for portaging between those ponds is paramount. I visited the Adirondack Museum which displays boats showing the history and evolution of those "Lost Pond Boats". The first and most famous is the Sairy Gamp, built in 1882, shown here. It weighed about 12 pounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was Peter Hornbeck who brought the Sairy Gamp back to light by recreating the design using modern lightweight materials, first kevlar, and more recently, carbon fiber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Hornbeck boat, the "Sairy Damp."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next was a visit to Peter Hornbeck himself, where I was shopping for a shorter Hornbeck to carry in my new RV. (I bought the boat first, then the RV that would carry it inside.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hornbeck's test pond in Olmstedville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying out the boats. I ended up with the short green one on the bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather wasn't too good, but sales were made anyway. Old on the left, new on the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a chance to try them out in a few of those lost ponds...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was also an opportunity for a horseback ride in the Adirondacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some mini get-togethers with RVing friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then it was on to Massachusetts to help my sister and brother-in-law while she had a knee replacement surgery. She's on the left, comparing recovery experiences with her son-in-law's mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had a chance to take my great niece paddling while there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Courtney paddling my old Hornbeck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A visit from cousin Barbara and her husband, Bill. Dick and Linda on the right. Sadly, Dick contracted pneumonia and died shortly after I left to go home in August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our goal was to paddle some of the "lost ponds" and lakes for which our lightweight Hornbeck boats are made in the Adirondacks. Our first stop was at Limekiln Lake. This is my site next to the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indian Paintbrush grows in the campground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina's "Lark" is learning to swim. He's looking at Tina for reassurance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a hiking trail that leads to a beaver pond and swamp below the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail is sort of rocky...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And rooty...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well no wonder! I'm sure it's much easier going on skis in the winter time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beaver dam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know what kind of flower this is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But bees like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wildlife on the trail...red-tailed squirrel?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rain let up....time to get the kayak out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cloud reflections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mergansers and Mallard ducks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina's getting ready to put her kayak in too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Checking out a narrow cove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little rain will not deter us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina opted to use her Sea Eagle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina made an awesome discovery here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A nesting loon! Used my zoom lens for this and we did not disturb her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We counted eight merganser babies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later we had a visitor! RVing friend Carol came to visit us at the campground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another hike on the nature trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady Slipper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail was a bit wet after the rain!</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-72875859621510027902017-06-20T15:19:00.000-07:002017-10-21T17:16:35.999-07:00Green Lakes State Park, NY<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found another "gem" in New York at Green Lakes....clear waters with an emerald green hue. The two adjacent glacial lakes each have wide hiking trails around them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are both examples of meromictic lakes, which means that there is no mixing of surface and bottom waters. Such lakes have a high potential for evidence of ancient plant and animal life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beautiful accessible trails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clear deep water. The deepest lake is 195 feet deep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina and Birdie on the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wild flowers...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birdie, of course, was birding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She thought she heard a Veery...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But decided it was this guy, a Wood Thrush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I was thinking about kayaking these placid lakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the next day, Tina and I did that! Notice we are not using our own kayaks. Due to the sensitive nature of the lakes, no outside boats or paddle boards are allowed. So we rented theirs. They did let us use our own lightweight paddles and pfds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A place to sit along the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trees that tumble in are preserved in the cold water.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submerged reefs built up over the years from the annual "whiting" events in Green Lake, during which calcium carbonate precipitates out of the lake's waters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blue-green color of the water is from dissolved minerals...calcium, sulfur, and magnesium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This reef build up has occurred over thousands of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Underneath the reefs are some extremely rare aquatic mosses and sponges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That bridge passes over a stream that connects the two lakes...not navigable by kayak. Green Lake is the only lake where kayaking is allowed. The smaller lake, Round Lake, is left in its pristine wilderness condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are university students getting some deep water samples for testing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She found another stump critter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This large reef is called Deadman's Point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deadman's Point as seen from the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sign at Deadman's Point</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina was taking some underwater photos of the reef.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A beach has been developed at one end of the lake. It was pretty popular, as you can see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a handy floating kayak launch with grab bars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These two dogs were carrying their own toys and water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following morning Thistle and I took a hike by ourselves. First we went back to Round Lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lakes are at the base of a deep gorge surrounded by steep hills covered with old growth forests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took the steep trail up to see the ancient trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nearly half of the park's 1,955 acres is old growth forest, <span style="background-color: white;"> which includes many very large specimens of tuliptree, sugar maples, beech, basswood, hemlocks, and white cedars.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuliptree Cathedral</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is well worth a visit to this park just east of Syracuse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends Tina and Birdie and I camped at Watkins Glen State Park. A gorge runs through it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And an awesome trail follows the course of the water through the gorge. Of course we hiked it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can plan to get wet while hiking next to all the falling water, but the day we hiked it it was raining in addition to the waterfall spray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was wet and wild and wonderful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are over 800 stone steps and stone bridges which span over and under 19 waterfalls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one goes under.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a spiral tunnel that climbs to the next level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting at the bottom, there's a 400 foot elevation gain past steep cliffs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lush tropical-like greenery grows in the gorge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail is 2.5 miles one way....up. Then we went back down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because of the rain, it was not crowded as it might have been on a sunny summer day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know some daring adventurers just have to walk across that log. Glad I didn't have to watch anybody do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hanging garden of ferns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking down from a bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we arrived...me with map in hand. This was my first visit to our nation's capital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Smithsonian was a big draw for me, and our first stop was at the Museum of Natural History.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a checkpoint like this at the entrance to every building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Modern and prehistoric</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And much more...too numerous to show. Once outside we walked to the bus stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We caught the Red Circulator here and rode in AC for awhile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another way to tour the city...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the Jefferson Memorial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we got off the bus to visit the Lincoln Memorial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">View from the steps. They were draining the Reflecting Pool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina and Paulette climbing the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A school group learning about MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A bacteria in the water is making the ducks sick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So workers are draining and cleaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So many names...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back on the bus, we passed the White House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the Washington Monument again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the Capitol Building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We got off at the Native American Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was lunchtime, so we ate here. I had a Bison Burger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we toured the museum. These are Peace Coins handed out to Native Americans during the Lewis and Clark expedition, if I remember correctly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We learned about the many treaties made...many more than I ever realized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The history at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What the treaty was about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And what happened after the treaty was signed....or how the treaty was broken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found this painting on animal hide of Custer's Last Stand...the Battle of Little Bighorn fascinating. I never knew that existed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A model of Inca trails and rope bridges in Peru.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day we took a different train to go to the Arlington Cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we took a tram tour there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in the city, we walked to the White House. There were protestors on the back side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of electronic equipment on the roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Life-size dioramas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I learned that I am part of the "Trailer Problem," lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the American History museum I found some interesting artifacts, like this Mandan Bull Boat, that Lewis and Clark wrote about in their journals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And a silver cup that belonged to my ancestor, William Bradford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have to thank Tina and Paulette for helping me get over my fear of traveling to the big city.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-39795700620215302582017-06-14T11:09:00.000-07:002017-07-28T11:17:59.377-07:00Harper's Ferry and Charles Town, WV<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After coming down off the Skyline Drive, RVing friend Tina and I stopped in Charlestown, WV for a couple of days to tour Harpers Ferry, National Historic Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Harpers Ferry is the famous site of abolitionist John Brown's raid in October 1859, as well as Civil War battles. This is the view from Bolivar Heights from which Union troops were forced to surrender after being isolated here by besieging Confederate forces in 1862.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We took a shuttle from the visitor center to the historic downtown area.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The town of Harpers Ferry was built on one of the steep hillsides that surround the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomic Rivers, making this a very strategic location for commerce as well as defense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Historic Shenandoah Street brings you back to the 1880s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once a flourishing factory town, all that remains of Factory Row is just a series of foundations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Foundation of the Market House that was destroyed by severe floods in 1936.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Map showing the location of the Armory Paymaster at the point of land between the two rivers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Shenandoah flows from the right into the Potomac River here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old firehouse was commandeered by John Brown and used as a fort during the raid on the armory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in its early industrial days, Harpers Ferry figured in the supply of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina and I toured the hillside streets on foot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were a lot of stairs involved, and it was hot...so we fortified ourselves with ice cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old stone steps are worn from decades of footsteps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina coming up the steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The steps leading to the Catholic Church are lined with Hollyhocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bees were busy pollinating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, circa 1833, survived destruction during the Civil War by flying the British Union Jack to symbolize neutrality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The parish priest was called to administer last rites to a victim of John Brown's raid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1775, town founder, Robert Harper, chose this hillside for his home. The mansion was completed in 1782. It is the oldest surviving structure in Harpers Ferry. Unfortunately Harper died that same year, and never lived here. The house was inherited by a niece and remained in the family for about 140 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From this vantage point, early residents watched Harpers Ferry grow from a tiny village into a thriving industrial community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pattern of stones in the retaining wall. Root cellars were also built into the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Climbing above the Catholic Church we come to the weathered ruins of St. Johns Episcopal Church, built in 1852. During the Civil War it served as a hospital and barracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">High above the river is a site known as Jefferson's Rock. It is where Thomas Jefferson stood in 1783 and described the view during a visit to Harpers Ferry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The view from Jefferson's Rock. In 1860, the armory superintendent ordered supports placed under the rock because it was "endangering the lives and properties of villagers below."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During our stay, we were free-camping at the Charles Town Racetrack and Casino, so we got to watch some practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we also toured the town established by George Washington's brother, Charles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The town also figured prominently in the events surrounding John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trial took place in the county courthouse in Charles Town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The town was also where John Brown was executed in 1859.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Gibson-Todd House was built in 1892 on land adjacent to site of John Brown's gallows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A foggy morning at our last stop on the Skyline Drive, Big Meadows campground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle enjoyed watching the abundance of chipmunks outside the window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Appalachian Trail passed near this campground too, so there was another opportunity to hike a small portion of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there were many deer wandering through the campground, some with very young fawns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a few miles up the road is Skyland, where horseback riding is available, so Tina and I scheduled a trail ride through the national forest. I rode Tonto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Tina rode Buckshot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Riding through an old apple orchard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had one guide in front, and two in the rear. Most of the riders they get are inexperienced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the ride, we hiked the Limberlost Trail where mountain laurel was in bloom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an easy trail that is ADA accessible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many benches along the loop trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many fungi on the stump and log.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting rock formation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day we hiked to the top of Stony Man Mountain, the highest mountain in Shenandoah national Park. The trail began through a new growth forest with an understory of ferns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tiny seed fell into a crack in this rock. As the tree grew it split the rock as seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ancient rocks near the summit of Stony Man Mt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And on the drive back to the campground, there was wildlife. This is a bear cub. Mama bear was not in sight, but probably nearby. The next morning as we drove through this area again, I saw both mama and cub cross the road in front of me. Not picture of that, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then there was this scene...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our last hike was through the meadow. You can see a deer path through the grass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This buck was hanging out in the woods at the edge of the meadow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And of course I mentioned there were a lot of chipmunks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another RVing friend Paulette joined Tina and me at Cherry Hill campground in Washington, DC. We toured the nearby Great Falls of the Potomac National Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We walked the trail beside the old Potomac Canal that was used to portage boats around the falls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That trail led to an area above the falls, so we had to turn back the other way to get to the falls overlooks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a hot day for walking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are 3 main overlooks with various views and accessibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first one gives you a close-up partial view of the upper portion of the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Best wide-angle view of the falls.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paulette resting and hydrating in the shade. Did I mention it was hot?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trail winds through a boulder field.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watching extreme kayakers trying to paddle up to the base of the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made it to Loft Mt., the first National Park campground on the Skyline Drive. Again, Tina got the premier spot with a gorgeous sunset view....later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Appalachian Trail circles the campground just a few feet below our sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We both had nice pull through sites on the rim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long shadows just before sunset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stages of sunset...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the afterglow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took a hike to Doyles River Falls, upper and lower falls. Notice Tina is appropriately attired with belt pack and plenty of water, two hiking sticks, and good walking shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hikers along the Appalachian Trail appreciate this spring, but it is still recommended to filter or boil the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail follows a creek that flows into Doyles River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then it crosses the creek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we came to the river we thought this was the Upper Falls, so I took a lot of pictures of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we soon learned we weren't there yet. Tina is testing this log as a resting place on the way back up the mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At last we came to the real Upper Doyles River Falls. It was more impressive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I left Tina sitting down there admiring it as I continued on to check out the Lower Falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the trees I could see the top of the falls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More cascades viewed from the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a pretty rugged descent to the base of the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the view was not as good due to the amount of foliage. You couldn't see the top from here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bottom of Lower Falls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we climbed back up the mountain. Good workout!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day we hiked the shorter trail up the mountain for a fantastic view. It's easier to climb up first and go down on the way back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another view. You can see some of the Skyline Drive below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sherando Lake is a National Forest campground just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Tina was happy to get a nice shady site on the creek with electric hook-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are two small lakes here. Tina is heading to the smaller Upper Lake via the trail/steps to the top of the dam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Upper Sherando Lake. There is a hiking trail around the perimeter. This is primarily a fishing lake which is stocked with brook trout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mountain Laurel blooming along the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is where puppy Lark had his first "swim"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of several old beaver dams and ponds along the creek on this side of the lake. They don't seem to be currently active.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Colorful fungi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lower Lake is a little larger and good for kayaking, swimming, and fishing. We came here for a kayak fix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina is all smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The water is clear enough to see the fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turtle and mountain laurel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And a shark! I had to rescue this blue shark that was floating away from the swim area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Water falling down the steep sides of the lake near the dam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beyond the dam you can see some of the rock scree on the mountainside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two Hornbeck boats. Notice I also rescued a beach ball and tennis ball around the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a small island in the lake. Kids swim out from the beach to explore the island. Watch out for goose poop if you are barefoot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We also hiked another trail around this lake. Then back to the mountains to drive the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-25136723943473596432017-06-08T17:25:00.002-07:002017-06-08T17:25:27.160-07:00Peaks of Otter and Area with Tina<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My RVing friend, Tina, and her dogs met me at Peaks of Otter campground on the Blue Ridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I got to meet her new Golden Retriever puppy, Lark. What a cutie she is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took the dogs on the easy hike around the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I've been wanting to hike on Sharp Top, one of the Peaks of Otter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a pretty rugged trail, so we decided to take the available shuttle to a point below the summit so we wouldn't have to hike so far uphill, then take the trail back down the mountain...prudent women that we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stairs leading from the shuttle drop off toward a viewpoint on the way to the summit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mountain Laurel were beginning to bloom along the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We could see another peak through the trees....perhaps Round Top?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The view from there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were lots of wildflowers in bloom, and so there were lots of bees too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stone steps reminded me of the climb up Skellig Michael to the monastery in Ireland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The summit of Sharp Top is covered with boulders. Rhododendrons are blooming here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina coming up the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a stone cabin up here that was built by the CCC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharp Top was once believed to be Virginia's highest peak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail continues between the boulders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a 360 degree view from the summit. This is looking down toward the lake and the campground hidden in the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking out over the roof of the cabin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the distance is another outcropping of rocks known as Buzzard's Roost. It involves a side trail off the main trail that we opted not to do, since we knew we weren't going to climb up there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina contemplating the expansive views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail down the mountain passes around and through many boulder piles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And down many steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina, outstanding on a rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rest of the trail was uneventful until....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We came to the bear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had been warned about the bear up ahead twice by other hikers coming up, so we were on the lookout. When we spotted it, it was moving away from the trail up the hill. It was far enough away that it continued eating, unconcerned about us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some facts about Sharp Top Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day we took a car trip to the town of Lexington, VA. We stopped at the cemetery first where Stonewall Jackson is buried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He and his family are entombed under his statue in the center of the cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We learned that there are soldiers buried in this cemetery from every war from the Revolution to the Vietnam War. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We decided to take a guided tour of the town by horse and buggy (with a fringe on top). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was Stonewall Jackson's house for a time. The entry that you see was originally at street level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The townspeople wanted to level off the hill and did so by removing soil and rock from the top and depositing it on the bottom and sides off the hill. The result was that an additional story was created from basements below. You can see the original bedrock under the window of this building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The balconies on this building were originally at street level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We learned a lot of history that I will not try to repeat here, but it is worth a visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of many stately old homes in Lexington. Note the original sidewalk in front of this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bricks are grooved to provide traction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the oldest house in Lexington, one of only two that survived an early fire that destroyed homes made of wood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day, another trail...this one to Fallingwater Cascades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a foggy morning, a good day for such a hike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tina was rethinking her decision to wear sandals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail was downhill all the way...until it was uphill all the way back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Canopies of Rhododendrons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bridge crosses over the top of the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other side of the bridge, the trail follows the cascades on its downward flow. This is where it begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel line the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And large boulders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A section of the Fallingwater Cascade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The water flows over and under fallen logs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around boulders,</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creating many mini-waterfalls along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the bottom we have to cross back over the water without benefit of a bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I let Tina go first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the trail started up...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was worth the climb!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is said that long, long ago fairies inhabited a certain quiet and remote region in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fairies roamed freely, enjoying the beauty and serenity of that enchanted place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day as the fairies were playing in a sunny glade, an elfin messenger arrived from a far away city bearing the sad news of Christ's death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the fairies heard the terrible details of the crucifixion, they wept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As their tears fell to the earth, they crystalized into little stone crosses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though the fairies have long since disappeared, the little stone crosses, known as "Fairy Stones," still remain as mementos in that enchanted spot, in and around the boundaries of what is now known as Fairy Stone State Park in Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so it was that as I took Thistle on his daily hikes in that area, I perused the ground for these stone crosses or "staurolite" crystals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This park road adjoined the road leading to the campground where I stayed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice how these trees start out as one at the base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little fairy peephole between the two trunks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't find any stone crosses that day, but I did find this heart-shaped stone that was pretty cool too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I kept it and made it into a magnet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I googled what the fairy stone crosses should look like when found in nature. I learned they are composed of iron, aluminum, and silicate, formed under an exact combination of heat and pressure provided by the folding and crumbling of the earth's crust during the formation of the Appalachian Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the staurolite-bearing schist is weathered away, the more resistant crystals are uncovered and found exposed on the earth's surface. Cleaned up and polished, they are often made into jewelry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I paid a visit to the nearby state park to learn more. I learned the legend and the science. I also learned of a designated place to go look for them. But it was a beautiful day, and the state park also had a lake. I saved the fairy stone search for another day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lake has many coves just waiting to be explored by kayak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I called this one Turtle Cove.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw a pair of Kingfishers, but the only photo I got was this blurry bird in flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main lake was a little windy, but the coves were calm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the steep banks were covered with Mountain Laurel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are cabins for rent on the other side of the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty blue skies and a crow flying by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was hoping for loons, but all I got was a pair of Mallard Ducks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another lakeside cabin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another kayaker with her dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After kayaking, I stopped in the gift shop where I bought two fairy stones, in case I couldn't find any on my own. You can see these are still partially embedded in the surrounding schist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the most common shapes of the stones. I believe the two I bought are both Roman, or possibly the one on the right is Maltese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day I drove to the hunt site I was told about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A storm was coming, so I didn't stay long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I picked up a few stones from under the tree roots to examine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I do believe one of them has a single crystal embedded in schist, as seen on the left side in this picture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I deem it a successful venture. While the science behind the staurolite crystals is interesting, I find the legend of the "fairy stones" more fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Found this in the gift shop at Mt. Pisgah Lodge. It fits, so I took a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My RVing friend Claudia was traveling in the area, so she stopped by for two nights to go hiking with me! Thistle was happy to see Howdy again. He never knows when or where members of his "pack" will show up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We took the car about 10 miles south on the parkway to a popular hiking place called Graveyard Fields, so named by the remains of fallen trees years ago. But the trail is mostly about waterfalls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You start out by descending several stairs and pass through this tunnel of rhododendrons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then more stairs that lead to Lower Falls of a stream named Yellowstone Prong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For generations these waters have turned mill wheels to grind corn for mountain residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yellowstone Prong is also home to the Appalachian's only native brook trout, known locally as speckled trout. Thistle was looking for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Native azaleas are blooming along the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Azaleas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More stairs lead down to the base of lower falls, a popular swimming hole in the summer months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see the falls through the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lower Falls. There's a deep pool at the base beyond the rocks, but I couldn't get it in the picture without scrambling over the rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next we climbed back up all those stairs and took the trail through Graveyard Fields to the Upper Falls, near the headwaters of the Yellowstone Prong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through the area know as Graveyard Fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across some boardwalks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along some bedrock...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through lots of wet and muddy places where spring runoff is occurring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over some rooty areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God's bouquet of trillium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were a few creek crossings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rock-hopping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Forget-me-nots and ferns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More mud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trail was eroded in several spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm guessing the shallow roots are due to the bedrock beneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pretty ground cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At last we could see the falls through the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We cannot see the top of the falls from here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The water falls farther up and cascades a long way over these rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We stopped to rest and eat a snack before attempting to go higher to see the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we must have really wanted to do that! Howdy went under the log, but Claudia is making her come back and go over it with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the best view we got near the top of the Upper Falls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trees were in the way of a better view, and we both declined to go higher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the descent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle had to sample all the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We finished the Graveyard Fields Loop trail back to the parking lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More rhododendrons and more wet spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trillium dotting the forest floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More information about the history of Graveyard Fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hike was about five and a half miles with lots of variety to make it interesting. I enjoyed having Claudia and Howdy as hiking companions.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-36755091805302603172017-05-11T05:19:00.002-07:002017-05-11T05:19:41.610-07:00Moonshine Creek to Mt. Pisgah<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At long last I started my trek north via the Blue Ridge Parkway, my favorite route in the East. My first stop was just shy of the Parkway, at a Passport America campground to dump tanks, fill with fresh water, and do laundry. The name of the campground is Moonshine Creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's worthy of a mention because as PA campgrounds go, this one is a cut above. Tucked away in the mountains, it has been beautifully landscaped with many sites along the fast-flowing creek. The bath house and laundry building seen in the background here, is immaculate with new, state of the art facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many walkways that criss-cross the creek, and many places to sit...some where you can dangle your feet in the cold water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are waterfalls both natural, and man-made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rental cabins on the hillside above the creek are named in keeping with the moonshine theme. This one is Jack Daniel and the one next to it is Jim Beam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the creek crossings via a small covered bridge. There were rhododendrons and azaleas in bloom throughout the campground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paths and seats along the creek, with tent sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The natural creek flows beside this pool where water from the creek has been diverted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below the pool, water cascades down to rejoin the creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tent sites on the left. RV sites on the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I caught up with the azaleas...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the robins too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next morning I started up the Blue Ridge Parkway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rhododendrons and azaleas were blooming along the cliffs at left. Water was streaming down the rock face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The water coming down the cliffs created conditions for hanging gardens of wildflowers to grow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stopped for a break at the highest point on the Parkway, 6,053 feet in elevation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any easy drive to the first campground in the National Park. It was almost empty except for a few tenters in another loop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mt. Pisgah. There's a trail to the top, but I don't know if I will have time to do that one, as I have others planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I started out on the Frying Pan Trail, which ends at a fire tower. I quickly remembered I haven't been hiking in the mountains lately, lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle found some bear scat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were a few obstacles along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View from the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trillium in bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you see the tiny red bug inside this one?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't remember what these cone-shaped fungus-looking things are called. Seems like I remember reading or being told that bears like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A white-flowering tree. Butterflies and bees were about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some gnarly old trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fiddleheads! I remember my mother liked to eat them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a wildflower kind of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fire tower was our intended destination, but we didn't make it that far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a lot hotter than I planned on and I did not bring enough water. When Thistle kept sitting down in each shady place with his tongue hanging out, I knew it was time to turn back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll be on the lookout for black bears while we're here. Planning a 3-day stay here, and more hiking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The entrance to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, GA. Conceived and founded by Cason and Virginia Callaway, this 2,500-acre garden opened to the public in 1952 as a retreat where "man and nature could abide together for the good of both."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Designed for year-round beauty, the azaleas take center stage in early Spring, but were past their peak when RVing friend, Brenda and I arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But one can't be disappointed because the Mountain Laurel were blooming in full splendor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Callaways made their fortune in the textile industry. When Cason Callaway retired as CEO, he and his wife turned their attention on creating these gardens. This area is known as the "Azalea Bowl," and was funded by one of the Callaway brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although the azaleas blossoms are gone by, mountain laurel and irises line the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brenda on the bridge over the azalea bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We'll see a lot more butterflies later in the Butterfly Garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cason had a chapel built in honor of his mother, Ida Cason Callaway. You can tell where he got his name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Behind the chapel is a small waterfall and creek. The location was chosen so that the creek could be dammed below creating a small lake in front of the chapel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The little chapel in the woods is used for many weddings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This stained glass window represents Georgia pines, and all varieties of native GA pines are represented in the glass panes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The side windows represent the four seasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the other large window represents oak trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cason Callaway died a year before the chapel was completed. It was dedicated in 1962 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Native plumleaf azaleas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bridge across the Azalea Bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This little wildflower is called "Fringed Pink."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Camelias were gone by too, but I found this one bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had lunch at the cafe here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Visitors were feeding turtles below the bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well-fed turtles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch made us late for the raptor show. We got there just in time for the clean-up crew...a Black Vulture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He may not be very pretty, but he has an important job to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along the scenic drive we found some azaleas still in full bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pretty Azaleas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A family of geese in one of the many ponds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our last stop was the Butterfly Garden. Doesn't Brenda make a pretty butterfly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Entrance to the Butterfly Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before we enter the butterfly enclosure, there is an active display of chrysalis. Each one is labeled above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This huge Atlas Moth just emerged from its chrysalis. It has a wingspan of 10-12 inches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The butterfly enclosure is very warm and humid, just as the butterflies like it. We, not so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tropical gardens...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes the butterflies hide under a leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Feature Plant, a genus of Bromeliad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Notice the lovely blue topside, and the camouflage underside of the wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are multi-levels in the butterfly enclosure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More wildflowers in the fields as we were leaving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking down on Callaway Gardens from a Pine Mountain overlook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was my first visit to Warm Springs, GA and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Little White House. It was a very interesting tour, and I learned a lot about that period of history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The entrance buildings house a museum and gift shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the museum is a life-size model of FDR in a wheelchair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His paralysis was caused by polio which he contracted in 1922 at about 40 years of age. He first came to Warm Springs in hopes of finding a cure in the warm mineral water. Not many pictures show FDR in a wheelchair or appearing to be handicapped in any way. He was always able to exude power, charisma, and confidence to those around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This display was twice as big as the photo shows and shows all the various carved canes he received as gifts.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FDR's 1938 Ford was custom made for him with hand controls at the Georgia prison factory. This was the last car he drove at Warm Springs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although the springs did not bring the cure he hoped for, the exercise did relax and tone his muscles. He created a foundation to bring other polio victims here for the therapeutic benefits.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About the treatment Center at Warm Springs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The circa 1800 stagecoach, "Tally-Ho" was acquired by FDR when he purchased the Meriwether Inn Resort to establish his treatment center for polio patients. It was used by Foundation staff and patients in parades in Warm Springs through the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FDR became president at the height of the Great Depression. He communicated his plans and confidence for recovery in a series of Fireside Chats via radio. Many of these were recorded at the Little White House in Warm Springs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of FDR's New Deal agencies was based on his getting to know his Georgia neighbors, and observing the need for electricity in rural farms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor brought us into World War II, and another crisis in FDR's presidency. His leadership also brought the country together and lifted us out of the Depression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These small Bibles with a personal message from FDR were handed out to soldiers going to war.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Little White House is also where FDR died after suffering a stroke while sitting for a portrait. The unfinished portrait is on display here as well as a later portrait that the artist finished to show what she thought it would have looked like had he lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walking toward the Little White House. The two buildings in the foreground are a guest house on the left and servant's quarters on the right with a garage underneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My RVing friend, Brenda, in front of the Little White House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We enter through the kitchen. This icebox was kept on the small porch outside the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pantry. Notice the note written beside the doorframe at left. FDR's cook wrote that note in pencil (above the white sign) on the day FDR died. It has been preserved like the rest of the house as it appeared that day.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a roll of paper towels above the sink, hanging from a coat hanger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The note.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wishbones hanging on the kitchen wall have been preserved as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dish cupboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The living room chair where FDR sat for his portrait. It is where he collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other side of the room was the dining area. Notice the easel on the right.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You pass through the Legacy building on your way out. It is where the Unfinished Portrait is now on display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FDR's last day.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The "Finished Portrait" was painted to honor the 25th anniversary of FDR's death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FDR was carried to the adjoining bedroom after his collapse. He later died in this bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice that FDR died at 3:35 Central War Time. "In 1942, at the height of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time in the United States. Referred to as “War Time”, DST was in force continuously from <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa/new-york?year=1942" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">February 9, 1942</a> to <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa/new-york?year=1945" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">September 30, 1945</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During this time, the US time zones were called “Eastern War Time”, “Mountain War Time”, “Central War Time”, and “Pacific War Time”. After the surrender of Japan in mid-August 1945, the time zones were relabeled “Peace Time”."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notes FDR made to a speech he was working on his last day. Still good advice today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Pine Mountain Valley Project was one of FDR's effort to resettle city welfare recipients back to the country where they could become self sufficient again. I like that it was not a gift/welfare, but a loan to be repaid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My campground (FDR State Park) was on Pine Mountain. It was one of FDR's favorite getaway spots when he was in Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was instrumental in having the road built over the mountain and picnic areas built.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dowdell's Knob was one of FDR's favorite spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He would drive up here and have his staff remove one of the car seats for him to sit on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was his view of the valley. I'm sure it is here that he conceived his resettlement plan.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the farm houses built as part of that plan are still lived in today.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was honored to sit beside him and admire the same view he enjoyed.</span> </div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-27447087270792172432017-04-23T10:36:00.001-07:002017-04-23T10:48:56.907-07:00Providence Canyon<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Providence Canyon, sometimes called Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon," near Lumpkin, Georgia is one of the places I wanted to stop and do some hiking on my way north.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The massive gullies, up to 150 feet deep, that make up the canyon were caused by erosion, simply due to poor farming practices during the 1800s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This historical marker tells a little bit about the start of the Providence farming community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second Providence Methodist Church was built about 1859 next to the Lowe Cemetery.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One door was ajar, so I could get a couple of inside pictures. Notice what appear to be oil lanterns hanging from the ceiling.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the old stove.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This marker was by the church and cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We wandered among the circa 1800s graves, but we did not locate the Lowes. Some graves were not marked. Thistle said it was getting too hot to keep looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of warning signs outside the Visitor Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My original desire was to hike into the canyon, but I got started on my trip a month later than planned, and it is much too hot to attempt it now.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's hard to miss all these warning signs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This sand painting is meant to represent the colorful layers of the canyon walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle and I decided it was prudent to stick to the shady rim trail during this visit.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And he quickly let me know that it was nearing 90 degrees and was really too hot for him even on the rim trail.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I got pictures of some of the views from the rim before we returned to our air-conditioned car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is water on the canyon floor all year, and that water eventually flows into the Chattahoochee River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The canyon soil's pink, orange, red and purple hues create lovely landscape photos of this quiet park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Erosion is an ongoing event in the canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And at least some of it is caused by hikers ignoring the "No Climbing" warnings.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This hiker climbed all the way to the top of the photo...and without any climbing gear.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every now and then they have a ranger-led geology hike here. I signed up for one when I thought I would be here in March, but had to cancel. Maybe next year I can take one.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I come back in cooler weather, I will leave Thistle home for the hike into the canyon.</span> </div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-12328072007226577632017-04-22T04:39:00.000-07:002017-04-22T04:39:09.501-07:00Coheelee Creek, Georgia<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Doesn't sound like much, does it? Maybe you've never heard of it. The locals probably prefer it that way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I'm getting ahead of myself. So let's back up a bit. Most of you know I recently bought a small mobile home in Dowling Park, FL. Specifically Advent Christian Village, Florida's first retirement community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It took a month to complete all the paperwork and I took possession on April 14th. It gave me time to get to know the community and make some friends and helpful neighbors. We even had a get-together of some of my RVing friends: Donna, Brenda, Carol, and Margie. Nan visited too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I made some kayaking friends too, and enjoyed kayaking the Suwannee River here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I was here long enough to fall in love with my new community, but it is still Florida, and still too hot in the summer, so as long as I can I will travel to cooler climates in the summer. So on April 21 I bade Dowling Park farewell and am on the road again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I traveled though some interesting small towns like Quitman, GA, that made me think I'll have a lot of exploring to do when I come back south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shunned the interstates and found some scenic roads in good condition with very little traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just two miles from my destination....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 20-minute wait gave me time to read about the historic covered bridge over Coheelee Creek. I read it several times, lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally the train conductor took pity on me and backed the train up so the bars went up at the crossing.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I was on my way to Coheelee Creek Park, a free Corps of Engineers park on the border between GA and AL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one was there, so I parked in a level shady spot across from the boat ramp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I checked out the boat ramp first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle always has to test the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next we took a walk and found the associated campground. It was closed as you can see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to a local fisherman I met later, it was closed a few years ago due to budget cuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The campsites overlooking the creek are overgrown and in disrepair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overlooking the confluence of Toheelee Creek and the Chattahoochee River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Thistle and I did the next best thing...we put the kayak in the creek. And paddled upstream toward the covered bridge. You can see there was very little current.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon the banks became very steep, and a wondrous hanging garden opened up before me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water seeping down the banks drips into the creek and provides just the right conditions for ferns and other plants to grow there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Intertwining vines...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle appeared to enjoy the beauty too...or else he was watching for critters.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After about a mile, the creek narrowed and we could see waterfalls ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was as far as we could paddle, and we couldn't see the bridge yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we could paddle right up to the base of the falls. You can see that there are several levels of cascades farther up.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks like a tropical paradise back here...one that should perhaps be kept secret between me and the locals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to get out and see if I could walk around the falls to the bridge.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it was too wet and slippery to get past the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I decided to paddle back to the vehicles and take the car to the bridge.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drifting downstream...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tree roots!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roots clinging to limestone.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle took a nap.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The park on this side of the creek has picnic tables and trails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But camping is no longer allowed here. I updated the Allstays ap, but the COE needs to update their website also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The covered bridge, built in 1891, is the southernmost covered bridge remaining in Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently April is Confederate remembrance month here.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bridge is closed/gated off, which helps protect it from graffiti and other vandalism.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bridge was built over the fall line, where the water stops dropping from the mountains and begins its run to the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail follows along the bluff to where our kayak trip ended.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking down from the bluff at the cascades.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back by the boat ramp, afternoon local fishermen were arriving to put their boats in to the creek. They all headed downstream for the river. All friendly local neighbors. A sheriff's deputy came by on patrol, and he gave me permission to camp here overnight. It was a peaceful, quiet night with no disturbance.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-19747990926082184032017-03-26T18:39:00.000-07:002017-03-26T19:09:47.387-07:00Peacock Springs State Park<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have never spent any time exploring this part of northern Florida, and I had never heard of Peacock Springs. It is just 20 miles from Dowling Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The park is primarily used by Scuba Divers, as there are a series of underwater passages through the springs. There is no camping in this State Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But there is also an educational interpretive trail, which is what Thistle and I came to hike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The entrance is a bumpy dirt road. Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Pay your $4 park entrance fee at the kiosk, unless you have a state park pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found out this park is VERY popular with divers, especially on a Sunday afternoon. The parking lot was full except one narrow slot that my Honda Fit could "fit" in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peacock Springs is really a series of springs along a long slough that eventually flows into the Suwannee River. My first view was of Peacock Springs II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking up the slough toward Peacock Spring I. These springs are in a cypress-dominated Floodplain Swamp, one of eight natural communities found in this park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cypress trees surrounding Spring II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking down the slough toward Peacock Spring III. The other springs along the slough have different names.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a memorial near the steps leading to Spring I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The steps are dedicated to the memory of Sheck Exley. One side is currently under repair. The steps make it easier and safer for divers to enter the water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Divers entering the water. The extensive submerged cave system attracts divers from all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It would be easy to say that the springs got their name from the peacock color of the water, but that is not the case. They are named for the original owner of the land. More on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Interpretive trail starts here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Immediately I notice a small sinkhole with water from the aquifer visible. It is very small and it is not possible for divers to enter here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I learned a lot of things I did not know on this trail. Signs identify trees and other flora, as well as showing us what lies below out feet that we cannot see. The trail follows the path of the cave system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But first we learn a little history... about the name and the town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John Peacock was a very busy man.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The town of Luraville as it appeared in the 1890s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lulaville Railway.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Lulaville Country Store on the corner of Highway 51 is the most prominent business in Lulaville today. It is a hangout for divers and has a good reputation for food served. I think if I have time to return while I am here, I will visit here and learn more about Lulaville. That will be another blog post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This tree is an American Hornbeam, also called musclewood because of its muscular looking trunk. I had never heard of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you see the muscular sinews around this elbow?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle and I come to the first of several signs that answers the question, "What is beneath your feet?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Breakdown Room is 20 feet below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Diver navigating the tunnel leading to the "Breakdown Room."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have now left the Cypress trees and have entered another realm...an Upland Hardwood Forest, heavily shaded by a canopy of Florida Maples and other hardwood trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It says this stand of maples is one of the largest in the state. Who knew?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will need to come back in the fall and see if the leaves on Florida Maples turn vibrant colors like northern maples do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no sign here, but this land seems to be sunken, perhaps where limestone has collapsed underneath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another tree I had not heard of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leaves with double serrated edges. Looks like a saw blade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is not the same tree, but I liked what looked like the head of a woodland creature sticking out of its trunk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what creatures live in the caves, you ask?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are Troglobites that can only survive in caves, and Trogophiles that just like to hang out in caves, and Trogloxenes that just visit caves and then go home. Pretty cool, huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are magnolia trees here, but they are not in bloom yet, so I didn't take a picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Sparkleberry tree is almost ready to bloom into those pretty white flowers that remind me of Lily-of-the-Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can you find the tiny buds starting to form?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next place we come to is called the "Peanut Restriction." Notice the large sinkhole that lies just above the Peanut Restriction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sinkhole is still active.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I began to see some wildflowers. I didn't notice these tiny white flowers have fuzzy edges until I uploaded the photo to my computer. I don't know what they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The American Holly is an evergreen tree that grows in the Hardwood Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next we came to a Pignut Hickory Tree. The wood from this tree is used for tool handles and ladders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Diamond-patterned bark on the Hickory tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I searched and found one hickory nut that the squirrels hadn't carried off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's another one that the squirrels already ate,</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A tiny wild violet on the forest floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This tree had multiple fungi growing on its trunk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another tree, more fungi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Colorful pattern on the fungi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And now below our feet we have the "Crypt," so named because skeletal remains of a large turtle were found here by cave explorer, Sheck Exley when he discovered this room in 1975.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An offset sink happens when a sinkhole forms adjacent to the main cave rather than directly over it. They have just one passage leading from the main cave tunnel to the room below the sinkhole. Nearby is an example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This tree has two burls, but no squirrels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cisteen Sink, an example of an offset sinkhole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An next to it is a beautiful Floodplain Swamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a Cabbage Palm, also known as a Sabal Palm. It is the state tree of Florida. The fleshy center can be eaten..."hearts of palm" salad. That is how it came to be called "cabbage" palm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well I want to go to the overlook, don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Olsen Sink is what is known as a window into the aquifer because it is not simply a water-filled sinkhole, but actually a portal to the aquifer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that's important because it makes the aquifer vulnerable to surface runoff that may carry fertilizers and other chemicals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Olsen Sink is covered with duckweed, tiny native plants that float on the surface. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not that you wanted to, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Duckweed can actually be helpful in protecting water quality by blocking the sunlight which would allow algae and other invasive plants to flourish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've heard of Ohio Buckeyes, but not Red Buckeyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one's red blooms are past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Off in the woods I could see some white lilies blooming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A native wild grape grows here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Large thick vines circle the tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And grow way to the top! You'd have to climb this tall tree to get to the grapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Besides the main cave passage, there are numerous smaller passages that experienced cave divers like to explore. But they can be very dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So warning signs are posted next to the cave entrance to these side tunnels. Divers can easily get disoriented in them because there is no longer any light from the springs above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trail crossed the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This entrance to the cave system was discovered in 1967.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What else do divers do in the springs? Some are working.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Pothole Sink</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This tall tree is a Loblolly Pine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this is a Live Oak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we have completed the loop and are back at Peacock Spring I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People also can swim and snorkel in the springs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But today it was all about diving. I was the only hiker on the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looks like divers need a lot of expensive-looking gear. These two women are heading back to the parking lot for their tanks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only certified cave divers and students with instructor/guides are allowed in Peacock Springs. There is one other large spring that allows divers certified in Open Water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a display about the limestone and prehistoric marine fossils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not sure, but it looked like some diving lessons were taking place in Spring II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not sure exactly what they were doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think that's Peacock Spring III.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wonder if Dr. Peacock had an orange grove here? This is another large spring and the only one where Open Water divers are allowed to dive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The divers' bubbles have opened a hole in the duckweed cover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found this photo on a diving website. Looks like duckweed could be messy to dive in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And one more thing I learned. I had never heard of the McKeithen Indians either. I'll save that for another day.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-62711768331640884992017-03-15T18:39:00.004-07:002017-03-19T04:29:10.872-07:00Dowling Park, FL...where I'll retire after RVing<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dowling Park's Advent Christian Village was Florida's first retirement community, founded in 1913 as a home for orphaned children and retired ministers and missionaries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For more than a century, the community has developed and grown, adapting its methods to keep pace with the needs of a changing society. Today it is a thriving 55+ community of nearly 800 members. The 1,200-acre campus offers scenic landscapes along the Suwannee River within a hometown atmosphere. Today's members come from all backgrounds, faiths, and economic abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I came to take a tour and stayed overnight at Tresca Park, their small RV Park next to the Park of the Pines Mobile Home Neighborhood...one of the housing options at Dowling Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pull-through, full hookup site at Tresca Park. Although they don't have long-term RV sites, I found out I can stay a month or two, so may do that next time I winter in Florida.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first stop was the Village Square to pay for my site at the Lodge. Only they didn't charge me anything since I came to take a tour. Nice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a small grocery store here...and the sign says they deliver anywhere in the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second story is the Lodge...with rooms for rent overlooking the river. Many residents use golf carts, especially those that can no longer drive a car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Post Office and the Village Cafe. I was early for my tour, so I had lunch here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wednesday's menu: I had a bowl of chili and a half sandwich. $6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is outside seating by the river, but it was too cold today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I took a little walk after lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">View of the Suwannee River from the landing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Azaleas are blooming...I'm in the right place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are other shops and offices in Village Square.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hearing aid specialists...that's good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A small laundromat. $1.00 a load. There is also a barbershop and a beauty shop in this plaza.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This rack at the second hand shop had several nice London Fog coats for $3.00. I decided I didn't need one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across the street is the Sales and Rental Office among a row of the newest apartment complexes. This is where my tour begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nice looking apartment building. Notice the dogwood trees are blooming too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This neighborhood has homes for rent. Later we'll see another neighborhood where members own their own home and land, another option for independent living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another apartment building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was taken to see a vacant apartment in this complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Living room looking toward dining area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bathroom. There is an emergency pull cord in every bathroom and bedroom in the apartments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Grab bars in the bathrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Emergency services are included in your membership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a one-bedroom apartment, but the rooms were huge. I could park my whole RV in one room, haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kitchen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another room off the kitchen toward the back porch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Porch overlooks the woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next we stopped at the village nondenominational church. This is the original church which nows serves as a chapel for evening services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stained glass windows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the main sanctuary where Sunday services are held.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across from the church by way of a covered walkway is the Phillips Center. This area houses the Lopin' Gopher Deli. The name is in reference to the old railroad that came through here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The main dining room is also in this building. The main meal of the day is served here at lunchtime for those who wish to dine here (and not cook).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is also an information center here, but I didn't stop to see what kind of info they dispense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A mini library is in this building, but they have just completed building a new large library in the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sitting areas and conference rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everywhere we go, the landscaping is beautiful. I imagine a lot of volunteer hours go into helping with that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are more apartments near the river. This building has 3 apartments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">River Woods Neighborhood is all privately owned homes...some really nice ones in the $400,000 range. I wasn't interested in those.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fireside seating inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A large weight room with multiple television sets. The village has their own cable TV system and their own channel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heated indoor pool and spa. There are plenty of water exercise/aerobics activities scheduled, as well as time set aside for lap swimming. There is also an outside pool in the village, but this one gets more use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Piano, chess sets</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Large rooms for exercise classes: Yoga, Zumba, Low-impact Aerobics, Chair exercises, are just a few I saw listed. Use of these facilities is included in your membership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This building holds administrative offices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next we visited the medical facilities. This is the Clinic. There is a resident doctor and two nurse practitioners who work here. There is also a pharmacy, and dentist in this building. A Rehab/therapy department is housed here as well, including physical, occupational, and speech therapies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I met the most important worker in the village...the maintenance man!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the Assisted Living Complex which will soon be expanded, as the need is increasing for this service. There are also home health care services available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Good Samaritan Center offers skilled nursing care and has a wing dedicated to Alzheimers care for those who reach that level of need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good Samaritan Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These transportation vans run all over the village, all day long. Their use is included in membership. (Membership fees are $125/month)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is another vacant apartment I looked at, on a cul-de-sac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back side door enters into the kitchen from the carport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Living area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bedroom</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bathroom</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kitchen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hook-ups for stacking washer/dryer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the tour I took Thistle for a walk through the mobile home park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All yard and lawn care is included in your membership. maybe that's why everything looks so neat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This small park model has just gone up for sale. It is new and has only been on the lot a short time. The owner is selling this and another home in Maine in order to move closer to children. It was very tempting, but I am not ready, and don't think it would be a good idea to leave it empty most of the year. Notice they have a Roadtrek that fits in their yard, Donna? It might be what you're looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a community garden that any member can use to grow whatever they want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More housing. These two large complexes are Dowling House and Carter House. they have apartments and efficiencies, some of which are subsidized for low income people though HUD. There is a waiting list to get one of these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle and I took a hike on one of the trails by the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I met a member sitting here feeding some feral cats. She spoke highly of the village and has lived here 3 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Map of some of the many walking/hiking trails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I walked the white trail along the river and back by the red trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An old boat ramp that could still be used to launch a kayak. There is also a public boat ramp just outside the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you see the canoes and kayaker?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One reason I like this place.</span><br />
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"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Way down upon the Su-wan-nee River..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trails split off in different directions here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We ended up beside the Ceramics Shop...another hobby one can pursue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And back where we started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dowling House on the left, Garden apartments in the middle, and carter House on the right. The tall ones have views of the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Someone is very good at growing roses...they are everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One more view of the gazebo and fountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So a note to my children...if I ever get to a point I can't make the decision for myself...bring me to Dowling Park. (You know...when I'm older than 85)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I learned a lot about the history of Cedar Key on this tour, which I later reinforced with a visit to the Cedar Key State park Museum in town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first few pictures I took while waiting for the boat to arrive. These are Brown Pelicans on the pilings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And Terns on the buoys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Swim beach and kayak, SUP rental area. See the large building in the background?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A flock of Black Skimmers were on the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then they flew over to the roof of the next building. There were a few gulls mixed in there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see the Crystal River Power Plant from here. It was once a Nuclear Power Plant, but was converted to a coal burning plant after a crack was discovered. I wonder how they disposed of the nuclear material when they did that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The husband was the skipper while his wife did the narration during the tour. She was very knowledgeable about the science and the history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Historic Dock Street as seen from the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dock Street was the end of the line for the Atlantic to Gulf Railroad Line in 1884.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Depiction of the RR tracks leading to the island. Cedar Key was an important port for shipping lumber, turpentine and other products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Railroad Depot on the Shipping Dock. Today Dock Street is a tourist destination lined with shops and restaurants primarily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A map of the islands we will be visiting and learning about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The closest island on the left, Atsena Otie Key, is considered the original "Cedar Key." Its original name was "Achena Ota," from the Muscogean language meaning "Cedar Island."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A US Army supply depot and hospital were established here in 1839, during the Second Seminole War, and nearby Seahorse Key was used as a detention center for prisoners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the 1860 census there were 297 residents on the island and Ebarhard Faber Pencil Company brought industry to the town. A lighthouse had been built on Seahorse Key to shine the way for ships of commerce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today Atsena Otie is the only barrier island in the refuge that is open to the public. Kayakers and other boaters can beach their boats and walk the trails to see the remains of what was once a thriving community. They can swim, picnic, and even camp on the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see the remains of the old ship loading docks near what was the pencil factory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Behind the trailhead sign is a Cedar Tree. Cedar trees were harvested for lumber and for pencils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today myriads of birds use the old docks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An Osprey flies by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remnants of the pencil factory can be seen on the beach. The island community was destroyed by the hurricane of 1896, after which most families moved to Way Key, which is now known as Cedar Key.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A variety of terns winter here, including Royal and Forster's Terns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This wired habitat has been created for the Least Terns which have been declining in number. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Willets (with the long legs) and Ruddy Turnstones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And a whole lot of other birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our next Island is Snake Key which was used as a quarantine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Ships had to stop here and crew members were examined to make sure no one was carrying communicable diseases such as Typhus before the ship was allowed to enter the port. If anyone onboard was sick, the ship was quarantined at Snake Key until they were well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seahorse Key is our next destination, but first our guide described the remaining islands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The small island is called Deadman's Key, but no-one seems to know the origin of that name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The largest island is North Key, named because it is the northernmost island in the refuge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this peninsula on Cedar Key is called Piney Point. The town's International Airport is located on that peninsula. Yes, occasionally planes land here from other countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Grassy Key, seen in the foreground as a narrow line, is completely covered at high tide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All of these islands with the exception of Atsena Otie are protected bird nesting areas and wildlife sanctuaries. Boats are not allowed to go closer than these signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The University of Florida has a Marine Research Laboratory on Seahorse Key located at the old lighthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">White pelicans are the true snowbirds...they are winter residents of these islands. The Brown pelicans are here year round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This peninsula on the north end of Seahorse Key has been a major bird nesting area for years...until 2015. For unknown reasons, thousands of birds abandoned the nests that year and have not returned to this island to nest since. UF scientists and others are studying the problem, but have not been able to pinpoint the cause. Much speculation and many theories have been mentioned...such as noisy helicopters flying overhead during military operations. They are not overly concerned however, because it appears that the birds are nesting on other nearby islands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see the Cedar Keys Lighthouse on the top of the hill, the highest point along the entire Gulf coast from Texas to Miami. The building has been converted to a dormitory for UF students conducting research on the island. The classrooms and laboratory are at the base of the hill by the boat dock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is the second oldest lighthouse on the Florida Gulf coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, agriculture is the most important industry in Cedar Key, specifically clam farming. Oysters and crabs are also abundant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm guessing tourism is the number 2 industry. An active artist community resides here today, and there are many galleries in town. This is next to the cedar Key Arts Center. There is an Arts festival in town in April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A community garden...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just a local resident I passed on my way back to the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stopped on the way home to pick up a bowl of Tony's famous award-winning clam chowder. It was very good, and a little tangy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our morning walk took us again into the nearby Wildlife Refuge to hike the Shell Mound Trail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shell middens were created by natives over a 3500 year period starting about 6,000 years ago all along the Gulf Coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Archaeologists have excavated some of the mounds and discovered various mollusk shells, turtle shells, fish and animal bones, and discarded primitive tools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The result was to fortify the mud flats where they lived and fished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are climbing the largest remaining shell mound on the central Gulf Coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It covers 5 acres and rises 28 feet above sea level, an elevation that provided summer breezes and protection from storm surges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This mound was once larger than today. In the mid-1900s, prior to ownership by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, much of the mound was carried off in dump trucks to use as fill material and for road construction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View of the estuary from the top of the mound. you can see the fishing pier on the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oyster beds are exposed by low tide, one of the abundant sources of food for those early natives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">White pelicans in the distance, a winter resident of Florida.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An osprey flying over. Not sure if it is carrying a really big fish or a bunch of nesting material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An artist's depiction of possible fishing methods used by the early coastal inhabitants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today fishermen still reap a bountiful harvest from these waters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catfish!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crab pots exposed by low tide. The crab fishermen have to wait for high tide to check their catch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But oystermen aren't so lucky. They have to do their work at low tide when the oyster beds are exposed. How to they do it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boat ramp leads to mud flats in low tide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was very surprised to see this man back his truck right over the mud. It must be more solid than it looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the boat doesn't "float" on mud. Do you see what he is doing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, he is pushing that boat over the mud to deeper water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally made it and sat to rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not for long though, because the tide is rising.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He starts collecting oysters and puts them in the big plastic buckets he has on the boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some are already underwater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This women is wearing her mud boots to go after more bait. She's the one who caught the catfish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently this kayaker fisherman plans to launch in the mud too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A chart shows the kinds of fish caught here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets congregate on the mud flats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cormorants and a Great Blue Heron too...all fishing during low tide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beside the road I can see the sides of the shell mound exposed under the tree roots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Layers and layers of shells representing generations of early residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine all the seafood meals that represents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back at the campground ramp, another determined fisherman launches his canoe in the mud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paddling through mud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slow but steady progress. I think I'll wait for high tide!</span><br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134263047717622446.post-36172434763685445332017-03-11T17:25:00.003-08:002017-03-11T17:26:22.980-08:00Lower Suwannee Nature Drive, NWR<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just north of my campground is the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge with many access places. This morning I wanted to check out the 9-mile Nature Drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately I had limited time to spend because I had a reservation for a boat tour.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't realize the drive had several side roads leading to more features, so I missed a lot.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I have time, I will return and do this again. Today I limited myself to the main loop.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pretty drive on hard-packed dirt road. 15 mph is about right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did take the first turn off to check out a potential kayak launch site.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nice calm water in McCormick Creek.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next stop was a viewing platform overlooking a pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pond looking left...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same pond looking right. What did it yield?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A gator...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Little Blue Heron and a juvenile White Ibis,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And another small gator.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I passed more ponds, and roads to other ponds, but I didn't stop at them.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did stop and spend some time at this blooming thistle which was attracting pollinators.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another swampy area...nothing caught my eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Water Irises...very pretty.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The refuge headquarters is just another mile up the road. I'll go there first next time. There is a lot to do in the refuge...trails, scenic drives, kayaking, bird-watching, etc.</span> </div>
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