Koreshan State Park and Historic Site

We spent a lovely 24 hours at this park in Estero FL over the weekend. We were in site 11 next to Mike and Ann in Site 12. It is a small tightish campground but still easily maneuverable in a 34 ft RV. We had S'mores for June and bike rode all around in the hot and drippy humidity. Gopher tortoises everywhere. The river was tannin colored so no swimming but people were enjoying canoeing. We had a great Ranger led tour of the Koreshan 19th century settlement yesterday morning at 10AM. It truly is a unique place and well worth seeing. They did a lot of work on the site which is evident 100 years later, with the state's help and ownership now. The CG was close to Publix which is a plus.

'Til the next time.

Blue Spring State Park, Orange City, FL

Wonderful two days over this Labor Day weekend at BSSP! It took us 3.5 hours to get there. Tim did a great job backing into a nice sized space. The bikes stayed nicely hitched to the new bike rack. We had Site 14, very close to the footpath to the Swimming Area. We really didn't need the bikes after all but it was still fun to have them. What a beautiful Spring! The day tripping crowd was huge but welcome because it is an area where there are alligators. Their noise of fun surely kept all of them away. We swam 4 different times from the roped off "Manatee Refuge Area" to the Spring itself. The water is 72 degrees and while invigorating to us, was too cold for long for June. She really froze quickly and became irritable and whiney. I spent over an hour by myself and found 3 foot Gar, turtles and lots of smaller fish. We only saw one baby alligator at Dusk after all the swimmers were gone. That was a little freaky but it makes sense. The Spring dumps into the St. Johns River not far away at all. June and I went in with our clothes once when we weren't planning to swim at all - but couldn't resist!