{"id":5986,"date":"2023-01-02T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-16T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:16:21","slug":"last-day-at-lithia-springs-over-to-eg-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"Last Day at Lithia Springs over to EG Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn Thursday and Friday I took 2 more bike rides around Fish Hawk Ranch bike paths about 35 miles. This makes 7 different rides on various trails for about 120 miles. I’m getting good Cardiac Rehab here. <\/span><\/p>\n

The picture is a good picnic spot at Shadow Run Park on the way to Bell Creek Nature Preserve<\/span><\/p>\n

On New Years Eve I couldn’t get either MI or OH State games on my TV but I watched the play by play on Yahoo. Not so good but I got to see both of them lose. It took all the way to 2023 to finish the heartbreaking end to a game that Ohio State led all the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On New Years Day I again got our campground host, Chris, to give me a shuttle to the put-in at Alderman’s Ford. It is really nice that he does this for me, he used to haul Peggy & I up with our big canoe. In all the years we’ve paddled here I only found two other paddlers who wanted to paddle the river and worked out a shuttle.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a warm foggy day to start and even with a 30 minute lunch break, I made the 9 mile paddle in 3 hours. I saw 2 big alligators and lots of big turtles. For some reason it was the most Herons I’ve ever seen on this river.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been at Lithia Springs 15 nights and decided to try to get a site at EG Simmons Park on Tampa Bay. It is also a County Park that does not take reservations but if you arrive early at the end of a weekend you can usually find a campsite. I left my Lithia Springs at 7 AM on Monday morning and did the short drive over to near Apollo Beach. Not much traffic on a holiday morning. I got there before the gate opened at 8 AM, so I was number 1 on the wait list for any available campsites. <\/span><\/p>\n

It looked like there would be at least 8 sites available but they won’t hand them out here until after 11 AM checkout time. I saw that a site I had stayed in before would be available, so I was very happy. I had to do my weekly grocery shopping anyway and a visit to an ATM, since their credit card scanner is not working and they want cash. So here I am at Site #79 next to the water channel to the bay. I have plenty of room. I plan to stay here for 14 days doing both kayaking and biking.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The weather was hot & sunny and almost set a record, temperature got up to 85<\/span>o<\/span><\/sup><\/b> <\/span>F<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  On Thursday and Friday I took 2 more bike rides around Fish Hawk Ranch bike paths about 35 miles. This makes 7 different rides on various trails for about 120 miles. I’m getting good Cardiac Rehab here.  The picture is a good picnic spot at Shadow Run Park on the way to Bell Creek … Continue reading Last Day at Lithia Springs over to EG Simmons<\/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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2223trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}