Highlands Hammock State Park

Our next stop is another Florida state park. Many of the trees are really wide and/or tall.

This park promised a lot, but hasn’t really come through. They promised internet and even gave us a password, but later told us it hasn’t worked for a while and they had no idea when (if ever) it would work. The showers don’t work in half of the bathrooms. The dump station stopped working for a day or so after the Sunday rush. The paperwork talked about a 1,000 year old oak tree on one of the trail. Turns out it’s basically an old tree stump. The only thing that is still alive is a palm tree growing at the top and a few air plants.

Walking the trails is interesting. You constantly hear noises as lizards scamper past every few feet. Really, there’s a LOT of lizards here. This one’s a red-head.

Many of the hikes are on boardwalks through a swamp. The boardwalks must have been here for quite a while since the trees have grown around some of the boards.

The squirrels were friendly at the campsite. At one point a hawk showed up and scared our squirrels so that they were crying or screaming or whatever they do.

While it’s too cold in most of the U.S., it is unseasonably warm in Florida. It’s so hot we had to run the air conditioner several nights. Do you feel bad for us? Anyhow, here are some spring flowers.