Lake Wales

The final morning at Highlands Hammock I saw a deer eating ferns along a boardwalk. He kept looking at me but didn’t seem interested in running away from me.

Spook Hill is a gravity hill. What you do is put your car in neutral and let it roll. The fun part is that it looks like you’re moving uphill. When we started to roll, it seemed stupid since we could tell we were rolling downhill, but suddenly it changed to look like we were going uphill. Pretty cool!

 John thought I was absolutely crazy going to this spot. But it is actually advertised by the town. There’s a sign explaining the legend and how to do this and even a white line painted across the road as a starting point. Plus, when we got there another car was doing the same thing. We laughed about taking turns “having fun with the hill”. It wasn’t even kids, they were older than us.

We also saw about a dozen people parachuting into the local (Lake Wales) airport. They were remarkably precise in their landing for such a large group. We also stopped at a new winery (Fiddler’s Ridge Farms & Winery) that have only been in business for 4 months. It must be difficult to get a new business started like that. Both the manufacturing portions and the marketing would take time to build. We liked the honey wine.

Just because I liked this old hotel in town.