Tuesday - We explore the Mike Roess State Park

This state park was one of the first built in the state of Florida.  It is so large that we have to drive three miles just to get back to the main road from our camp site.  There are very few visitors here during the week so we do not have another camper within 100 yards of our trailer.  The bathrooms are clean and the showers are hot so it is great to get away from the heavy traffic and noise we are finding throughout Florida. (and we have avoided the bigger towns so far).  We have found that the state parks fill up on the weekends down here but are quiet during mid-week. 

Here one can see in the background the original water tower that still stands from 1935.  It was built  in the initial phase of the Park construction for use by the CCC workers.

Here are a couple of the twenty or so cabins that are for rent in the park.  They have both A/C and a fireplace, and some will sleep up to eight people.

There are numerous lakes and swampy areas in the Park but the water levels seem to be very low.  The soil type is more sandy than Crawford County in Michigan.

 

Bill met this strange fellow near the picnic grounds but could not get much information out of him.