{"id":6275,"date":"2023-11-18T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-31T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:05:23","slug":"ocean-pond-campground-thanksgiving-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6275","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Pond Campground &#8211; Thanksgiving Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OceanPondBike2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OceanPondBike2-300x265.jpg\" width=\"662\" height=\"584\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"794\" data-original-width=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ocean Pond Campground is in the Osceola National Forest in Northern FL. See my last blog about why I left early to secure a campsite for Thanksgiving week. The campground totally filled late Friday and I wonder if I would have got a site if I waited until Sunday morning as I originally planned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">We did get almost an inch of rain while I rested, but it was warm and sunny with temps. in the mid-70&#8217;s on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">This map I made shows the options of different NF roads you can use to take a nice bike ride. So today I decided to do the 14 mile loop that goes east to Olustee Battlefield, site of a civil war battle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NF-20road-20to-20Olustee-20Battlefield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NF-20road-20to-20Olustee-20Battlefield-300x225.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1440\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><b>Forest Roads &#8211; No traffic and easy to bike on<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">They have a small museum with some artifacts, and a few canon and a small monument.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjQRpc9yyyeWoTN3-OachrLrqZOhwYQ_UUuRlnm9yQekIzsR77X9Xa-zIDkeB8CQDoAwwerpgVa7PnDd1BuZRWQLIk8SnJkjCbDgrKmMAc8mzPlZcevqaGXf7cs6waQxFsg43BtA6_Nlz_VPQ3qOZy6XNuD_OXfSHusI3Zzcy2hXKAnKiAbT4WePYwyu6g\/s1440\/Olustee%20%20Battlefield%20Visitor%20Center.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Olustee-20-20Battlefield-20Visitor-20Center-300x225.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1440\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhFvAh63RjWTHlDHOq-PvLx1gLwE23MWxnqiY7jxSRUc7PbWmXFg-yPcrj4gkZjPxYBfOeRBLLttSEPHbMnwBY91cF36qr1R7eb5U4MWHUFmydGbNDhH2G9UphQ9EfPSIRFs8PW0ZwzKoqlZle5RDfSqsJZpog1zYez0hJIgaW4aNFwG18XL_oOv_e6vQ\/s900\/Olustee%20Battlefield%20Peggy-Fire.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Olustee-20Battlefield-20Peggy-Fire-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"506\" data-original-width=\"900\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\">I swear I saw Peggy&#8217;s ghost actually firing one of the canons or maybe it was just an a halucination. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OceanPondSunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OceanPondSunset-300x225.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1440\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;\"><b>Nice Sunset from my campsite<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Pond Campground is in the Osceola National Forest in Northern FL. See my last blog about why I left early to secure a campsite for Thanksgiving week. The campground totally filled late Friday and I wonder if I would have got a site if I waited until Sunday morning as I originally planned. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ocean Pond Campground &#8211; Thanksgiving Week<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2324trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","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=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6436,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}