Swampy launches from the Landbridge Trailhead to hike to the Landbridge over US75 and then takes the blue blazed trial off the main Florida Trail for a more than three mile hike today.
Archive for Florida Outdoors
Swampy’s Postcard Saturday: Swamp walk, Gatorland, 1970s.
This is a 1970’s postcard of Gatorland’s boardwalk trail in a swamp on the southside of the property. The boardwalk trail is still there today.
Swampy’s Postcard Saturday: Palms along the St. Johns River, 1912.
This car is postmarked 101 years ago today from Miami. It was sent by B.P.F. to Clara Keene at Bird-in-Hand Lane in Pennsylvania. No city given. It’s a Thank You card for a Christmas card received and that they are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Took about a four mile hike in Wekiva Springs State Park in western Seminole County. Click here to plan a trip to visit Wekiva Springs State Park. Well, I’d been mixing up days traveling across the state and this proves[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy takes the trail at Wekiva Springs State Park!
Swampy Live: Sulpher Springs
At one time Sulphur Springs, now engulfed by the City of Tampa, was an individual community in the early years of the 20th century. Now the community is mostly residential. Though, there are still remnants of, what was a bustling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Cruising Tampa Bay.
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
Here’s Swampy along Falling Creek in Falling Creek Falls Park. The park is in Columbia County in North Florida. The park is 204 acres and includes one of Florida’s few waterfalls. Click here for more information about Falling Creek Falls[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the Swampy Facebook page Peter Updike wanted to share this photo and the information below. Thought we would share it here, too. – ‘I thought the good folks at Swampy’s Florida might enjoy seeing this cypress stump located at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Travels: San Felasco State Park, near Alachua.
Swampy joined the Florida Cracker Chapter of the Florida Trail Association to hike part of San Felasco State Park in Alachua County. Above Swampy is at the south entrance to the park where the hike started. Swampy rests on a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Travels: Marshall Hampton Reserve, near Lakeland.
Swampy visited Polk County’s newest park last weekend, Marshall Hampton Reserve along Lake Hancock near Lakeland and the Circle B Bar Reserve. Riding the newly built trails Bob and Lee Julius encounter the elusive Swampy. Bob’s very happy to have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Travels: Finds the entrance of the Upper Hillsborough park land in Pasco County.
Swampy found the main entrance to the Upper Hillsborough tract just east of Zephyrhills in Pasco County on County Road 54. Click here to learn more of all you can do on this tract of the Southwest Florida Management District.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…