{"id":4915,"date":"2016-12-09T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:04:45","slug":"another-nice-paddle-another-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4915","title":{"rendered":"Another Nice Paddle &#038; Another Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Peggy-with-Canoe-Dolly_thumb2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Peggy with Canoe Dolly\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Peggy-with-Canoe-Dolly_thumb2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy with Canoe Dolly\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been here at Cyprus Glen Campground for more than a week and the place is still fairly empty. There are lots of campers in FL but I don\u2019t know what kind of campgrounds they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Egret-Heron_thumb2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Egret &amp; Heron\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Egret-Heron_thumb2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Egret &amp; Heron\" width=\"700\" height=\"496\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The bridge you see in the distance is I-75.<\/p>\n<p>We have large sites, electric &amp; water and the cost for seniors is only $15\/night.<\/p>\n<p>Another couple arrived with a canoe, paddled one day and left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PeggyBikingSandyRoads_thumb-25255B1-25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Peggy Biking down the Road\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PeggyBikingSandyRoads_thumb-25255B1-25255D-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy Biking down the Road\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The top picture show the new canoe dolly I bought to take the load off my back, which I hurt last year. It is aluminum, folds flat and weighs only 5 pounds. One person can pull the canoe with ease even on soft ground. On Wednesday we paddled upstream for about 3-1\/2 miles. There were not as many birds but we finally saw one big alligator that we frightened. We paddled for 2-1\/2 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday we biked south on the Withlacoochee State trail. It is a nice wide paved trail with lots of riders but first we have a 1-1\/2 mi ride out of our campsite on a hard packed road to get to the trail. We biked the steep overpass over US98 and turned around about 2 miles before the trail ended.<\/p>\n<p>On our way back, Peggy rested at the Ridge Manor Trailhead while I peddled down the highway for 3\/4 mi to shop at the big Winn-Dixie. I have nice shopping bag pannier that can hold a lot of groceries.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nice laundromat here so when we leave on Monday we will stop back here for some clothes washing.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since we got to FL, we had some overnight rain and a big cool down. It got down to 50<sup>o<\/sup> and tomorrow morning it may hit 40<sup>o<\/sup>, but at least it\u2019s better than the big snowstorm that is hitting the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been here at Cyprus Glen Campground for more than a week and the place is still fairly empty. There are lots of campers in FL but I don\u2019t know what kind of campgrounds they are looking for. The bridge you see in the distance is I-75. We have large sites, electric &amp; water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Nice Paddle &#038; Another Bike Ride<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1617trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}