Cedar Creek Primitive Campground Matanzas State Forest

We left Little Lake Bryant and headed northeast to the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States, St. Augustine.

We made a quick stop at the beach.

Then headed off to the Mantanzas State Forest to find Cedar Creek Primitive Camp for the night.  It was like driving through a tunnel of palm trees to get to our camp!

It was still daylight when we arrived so we went for a walk through the wetlands.  It was like walking on a sponge.

Little Lake Bryant Camp

We left Cobb Camp and headed south to Ocala National Forest. We drove through Jumbolair where John Travolta has an aviation estate.

We found Little Lake Bryant Campground and set up.

 We took a walk around the lake.










This dock shows how high the water level of the lake used to be.  We estimate it has receded about 10 feet.  Many of the lakes in the area are experiencing severe drought conditions.




We came across an old horse pasture.  There was a doorway in the middle of the pasture left behind from a building that once stood there.








The live oaks were spectacular throughout the entire camp.

Cobb Camp

We left Ocean Pond and went to Cobb camp nearby.  Cobb is set in a very nice wooded area.  We got down our motobike drove around Ocean Pond and explored the other area campgrounds a bit.  Hog Pen Campground was truly a Hog Pen.  We found that Cobb was our favorite.

That evening, George worked on fixing the misfire in our van (something about crossfire...rerouting the spark plug wires per Ford Technical Service Bulletin, replacing one of our eyebolts on the motorbike rack (it had become less eye like and more hook like), and securing our new grille with additional bolts.

Here are some pictures of our camp.

Ocean Pond Campground, Osceola National Forest - Olustee, FL

We left Wood Lake and headed towards Lake City, FL to pick up some supplies.  We saw this stop sign on the way and had a good laugh!

Afterwards we headed to Osceola National Forest to Ocean Pond for camp that night.  The campground offered showers and at first I was a little leery of what they would be like.  Upon inspection though they turned out to be very nice, clean and quite large.  We took showers that first night.  It was our first stand up shower in three weeks!

This was our campsite, but we were so excited to take stand up showers we forgot to take pictures until afterwards.

Wood Lake Hunt Camp, Apalachicola National Forest - Sopchoppy, FL

We left Apalachicola and headed for Sopchoppy, FL.  It was a rainy day so along the way we stopped and did some laundry and met some wonderful ladies there who helped us pass the time.  We made it to Wood Lake just after sundown and a very nice hunting camp right in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Battery Park Marina Camp

We left the Deliverance family and headed for Apalachicola, FL to Battery Park Marina. We got there early in the day and walked around the little town and the marina. Later that evening George worked on the horns we had picked up at the junk yard the day before.
























We camped under the bridge.