Sunday, March 31, 2024

Highlands Hammock State Park

We visited Highlands Hammock State Park. We camped there. They had an awesome CCC museum. Did you know Walter Mattau was in the CCC?

This is a firecracker plant. Did you know that down in here in Florida a hammock is a cooler, shady place? We took a tram to into restricted areas of the park. The tram tour took a couple of hours.

We saw lots of gators on the tour plus turtles, red shouldered hawks, anhingas, herons and egrets.

This is a fossil found when the CCC built the building. This turtle shell is as big as the ones in the Galapagos Islands. I had no idea we had turtles that big here.

 

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