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Archive for Swampy’s Florida Travels
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Swampy visits Mead Gardens in Winter Park. The park is a shallow shadow of it’s former self. I’ll post further sometime in the future.
If you look reeeeeal close you’ll see a couple decorative anklets worn by this stylish sand hill crane. Those are made by only the finest spanish moss found in the exclusive environs of Moss Park in south Orange County!
Besides the opportunity to learn all about Stephen Foster and the tunes he tuned, there are all the opportunities to enjoy Florida outdoors. Above is a shot along the Suwannee River which goes along with you as you take the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy at Lake Okeechobee on this very windy March day.
Here’s Swampy along Lake Weir in Marion County. This is from the boardwalk from the 1909 Ocklawaha Yacht Club below. Will try to post more about the Yacht Club building in the future.
Since this Swampy photo was taken in 2013, the suspension bridge has been removed for a far more uninteresting boardwalk. You can see Swampy on the middle of the bridge. Here’s where the historic site is:5709 Mill Pond Lane, Milton,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…