Found a plethora of purty pitcher plants at Clear Creek Nature Trail right beside the entrance of Whiting Field NAS. This is prime pitcher plant season. The trail is just outside Whiting Field, north of Milton. Here’s the address:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Swampy’s Florida Travels
Swampy visits the Rainbow River in Dunnellon.
Swampy climbs a tree in this photo just taken on an off road bike trail in the Lake Okahumpka Park in northern Sumter County. The park is off state road 44 and has a wide, paved trail (I call a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy was ably to take in the wilds of the very exclusive Indian Hammock Hunt and Riding Club in Okeechobee County. The Club is over three thousand acres of scattered homes, cattle, horses and scrub. The guard at the front[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Took couple mile hike along the trail of the Hilochee Wildlife Management Area in Polk County.
Here’s the Fourth of July beach crowd at Howard E . Futch Memorial Park at Paradise Beach in Brevard County. The parking lot is overflowing with cars still coming in.
Right now in Downtown Orlando through the new Year is the traditional Christmas Star. A variation of the star has been in the center of Orange Avenue near central since the 1950s. Swampy’s dear friend Jack Kazanzas was an angel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From my 2012 post: “It’s Toys ‘R Us in Ocala at 7:30 pm Thanksgiving night. The parking lot full and people parking everywhere else. The building itself is set back almost a block back from the sidewalk full of people.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is oldest operating post office in our state, local produce and honey is available, along with some local history books. The neatest thing to do there is to just look around inside the building at the post office boxes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida live at the Winter Park Public Library where I pulled a copy of friend Stetson Kennedy’s 1942 ‘Palmetto Country’ off the shelf and it opened to a page listing 2 groups who should not visit that is reproduced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…