{"id":5302,"date":"2018-03-05T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:23:08","slug":"back-again-at-ocean-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5302","title":{"rendered":"Back Again at Ocean Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

We only stayed 2 nights at Juniper Springs in the Ocala Nat\u2019l Forest since Peggy does not like that they have no electric power. We can watch TV at night and run our microwave to cook and our battery power never dropped more than 15% from fully charged. As long as your campsite is in the sun the batteries recharge during the day. It\u2019s only a 2 hour drive north to I-10 to Osceola National Forest. We got here on March 1st the same as last year but last year we never were able to get a campsite with power, there are only 19 power sites and 35 without power. At this time of year there are lots of northern campers starting to get ready to move North. This year about 5 campers were leaving the power sites and even though we were here at 10:30 AM we thought we missed a power again. But there were two guys that just decided to leave one of the nicest sites right on the water of Ocean Pond a 2 mile wide lake.<\/p>\n

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I put up my hammock and heard a lot of wood chopping right behind me, it was a beautiful Pileated Woodpecker.<\/p>\n

Last year we only stayed here for 5 days and then headed for home. It was a much warmer early March in Cleveland. This year the forecast does not look so good, so since we had this beautiful campsite we decided to stay here at least 10 days before driving up near Augusta. GA to Aiken, SC State Park. We have never been there but it looks like it doesn\u2019t require reservations at this time of year and is 5 hours closer to home. It\u2019s a two day 5 hour per day drive home from here and it is on a scenic river for canoeing.<\/p>\n

So like the other times we have been at Ocean Pond we intend to do a lot of bike riding on our tandem. We have peddled almost 500 miles on our tandem already this winter.<\/p>\n

Here is a map of two rides we took already. We will need to do some shopping in a few days so when we drive over to Lake City we may take the paved Woodpecker Bike Trail in Big Shoals State Park. You can also\u00a0 hike and view the largest rapid in FL on the Suwannee River.<\/p>\n

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We only stayed 2 nights at Juniper Springs in the Ocala Nat\u2019l Forest since Peggy does not like that they have no electric power. We can watch TV at night and run our microwave to cook and our battery power never dropped more than 15% from fully charged. As long as your campsite is in … Continue reading Back Again at Ocean Pond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1718trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","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=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}