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Slowly heading North–Back at WP Franklin

North Bound FL Trip Map

The FL map above shows our next four planned camping spots. Yesterday we headed north (only 10 miles to #2 – WP Franklin Corps of Engineers Campground where had stayed last month. We will stay here two weeks before heading North to #3 – Lithia Springs County Park for 5 days and then North to #4 – Silver Lake Park in Withlacoochee State Forest for 4 more days and finally to #5 – Ocean Pond Campground in Osceola National Forest. 

We don’t plan to drive on any interstate highways until be reach NC. We find that the state and local highways have less truck traffic and in the south are in much better condition than our northern roads and therefore much more relaxing to drive.
After Ocean Pond we will begin to check the weather in Cleveland as well as the road conditions for driving through GA, SC, NC, VA, WV & OH. We usually plan to get home about mid March. 

 

Two weeks of warm weather near Fort Meyers

View From Our Campsite #6

We got to our campsite on Valentines day. It is the same campground we were at in January but we got a much nicer campsite. It is under a nice big shade tree , however now we can’t see the sunrise or sunset like we could in our other site#11. At least it is not out in the hot sun and it is more private with a better view. We occasionally see Bald Eagles in the tree directly across the channel.

Because of the hot weather and the windy days we only paddled twice up Telegraph Creek for a 7 mile paddle, but the river was also very low since there has not been much rain. Telegraph Creek can be paddled upstream for about 3 miles or so and there are a lot of birds and a few turtles.

Right before it empties out into the Caloosahatchee River there was always a big alligator hanging out. On the opposite bank was a crazy boxer dog that would bark at us and jump into the water. The alligator usually went in also, I figured maybe that was his strategy to grab the stupid dog while he was preoccupied with barking at us.

We also only biked twice around the neighborhood streets and that was only 9 miles each time. I guess we are either getting lazy, getting old or hate biking in 80o weather.






Early on Friday morning we will head north to Lithia Springs Park. We will do some grocery shopping and get some propane in Arcadia, FL.  

They don’t take reservations and Fridays are usually not a good day to arrive. It is supposed to be a cold weekend so we are hoping there will be a campsite that we can get.

Hot two weeks but now turning colder