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We are still waiting for the park to clear the two log jams out of the Alafia River. Peggy didn’t want to paddle again and portage through the mud. They are promising now they will have it clear by this coming Wednesday, so we hope to paddle it on Thursday if we can get somebody to shuttle us with our canoe back up to Alderman Ford.

So we biked the Fish Hawk Ranch trails for 4 more days, covering another 50 miles. We have tried to follow all the different bike trails that go through the natural areas of the large housing development. Fish Hawk is in Hillsborough County a suburb of Tampa with a population of 18,000. The average home cost is $350K. Many of the individual developments are gated communities, but we sneak in behind cars or on bike paths.

The trails are 5’ wide concrete sidewalks. There are lots of curves, hills and valleys which keep our average speed below 9 MPH. Except for the weekends not many people use the trails.

There are all sorts of large birds like Egrets, Sandhill Cranes and ducks, I’m sure there are alligators in the ponds but we haven’t seen one yet.

We had two cool days but the weather has been great with no rain.

MON 1/7 Actual Temp 79° /46° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

TUE 1/8 Actual Temp 79° /52° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

WED 1/9 Actual Temp 73° /46° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

THU 1/10 Actual Temp 63° /41° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

FRI 1/11 Actual Temp 73° /37° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

Sat 1/11 Actual Temp 79° /50° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

SUN 1/12 Actual Temp 80° /54° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

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We have one more week here and then we plan to try to get a campsite on Tampa Bay at another Hillsborough County Park, E.G. Simmons. It is always full and it may be buggy, but we will give it a try early on Sunday 1/20.

Our last week was a much cooler week. On Sunday the toilet water flush was leaking slightly since the blade flush valve was sticking slightly on the rubber seal. I had bought a new rubber seal a few years ago but I was not sure how to install it. Since Monday was a shopping and laundry day for us and we would be driving our RV up to Valrico. I looked to see how much further to a  Camping World.. It was only another 4 miles, so I called them, they said the seal and blade both have to be changed since the seals get hard and the blade rough. They said toilets were inexpensive and easy to install so I should just buy a new one but the cost added up to $275 with installation & tax. I decided not to do that. There is no shutoff valve for the fixture like at home so I bought one at Lowes, and it was easy to install. That way I can a least shut off the water if it is sticking on.

On our way back to camp we stopped and had a nice dinner at an authentic Mexican Restaurant, Lavilla, just 2 miles from camp. They now have doubled the size from last year so they must be doing well.

This was our last week at Lithia Springs but the weather turned colder. We took another 11 mile bike ride around the Fish Hawk Ranch trails. Our bike trips for the three weeks totaled 100 miles.

They were supposed to remove the log jams from the river on Wednesday. We checked on Thursday and they assured us that it was clear. I needed to figure out how to get our canoe and us up to the  Alderman’s Ford put-in. I talked the head ranger into throwing the canoe into his equipment trainer and taking the canoe up there. But he said no passengers were allowed so the campground host, Chris, offered to ride Peggy and me up there in his jeep. They really went out of there way to provide us another day on the river. The river had dropped to 250 cfs, but that is still a very nice level.

Friday was a nice warm day on the river and we saw lots of turtles and birds but when we got to the first log jam we found that the narrow path they cleared was choked with more branches that had floated from upstream. I tried for 30 minutes to open it up but when we tried to paddle our canoe through it was about 4” too narrow. So we had to do another portage. That was the only place we were obstructed.

Now back to the toilet story. I watched an on-line video about how to install a new seal, it looked really simple as the toilet top comes off by just removing two bolts and the base remains in place. I gave it a try, it was easy but I had the wrong rubber seal and the blade was rough so the valve was still sticking. Looking further into it I found a kit on-line for about $28 but didn’t know where to ship it, since we were leaving on Sunday. I went back to plan A, why not just order the toilet from Wal-Mart and then pick it up on our way to our new camping spot on Sunday. Free shipping to the store and it will be there when we pass by for about $160.

We were headed to another Hillsborough County Park called E.G. Simmons early on Sunday morning. We figured Sunday morning was the time most local campers leave but this was a MLK Monday holiday weekend and it may push things back to Monday morning. After picking up the toilet and shopping we arrived at camp about 9:30 AM.

We were #5 on their waiting list but they no longer have overflow campsites that we could stay in until a site becomes available. The check-out time is noon and there were 7 campers that may be leaving so we decided to wait and hope that the cooler day may convince them not to renew. While we were waiting I installed the new toilet in about 10 minutes. This place is popular since it is right on Tampa Bay and most of the campsites are on the water. We took a bike ride through both camp grounds, each with about 50 sites.  We saw a small motor home leave from site 25, and we liked the location on the water channel and the park road and hoped we could get it. We did get it and the weather is supposed to get warmer for a few days. Since we have been back in FL the only rain was last Saturday night while we were sleeping We spent the rest of the cool day Sunday watching the NFL football playoffs. We will stay here a least one week and possibly two. We can ride our bike to see the Manatees by the power plant outflow.

Last weeks actual weather

MON 1/14 Actual Temp 66° /46° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

TUE 1/15 Actual Temp 61° /43° Hist. Avg. 70°/50°

WED 1/16 Actual Temp 59° /37° Hist. Avg. 70°/50°

THU 1/17 Actual Temp 73° /36° Hist. Avg. 70°/50°

FRI 1/18 Actual Temp 75° /41° Hist. Avg. 70°/50°

SAT 1/19 Actual Temp 79° /46° Rain Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

SUN 1/20 Actual Temp 68° /45° Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

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All the local tours and tourists visit the Manatee viewing area near the Apollo Beach power station. Even though it was a windy day we decided to ride our tandem from our campground a 17 mile roundtrip ride, mostly on sidewalks or safe bike lanes. It took us about 45 minutes in both directions.

Most of the ones we saw today looked like babies, when it’s colder many more bigger Manatees come here. There were all sorts of fairly good size Tarpon swimming around the warm power plant discharge.

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So I suggested that we bike over to the little restaurant that we discovered last year that puts on great fish dinners. It is casual outdoor dining at a place that looks like an old ice cream stand. It rates as the best seafood restaurant in the area and is only a 3 mile bicycle ride away.

We got there at 4 PM to beat the crowds and also to get back to camp before it got dark.

My last blog was posted on Wed 1/23 which was our last warm day until Fri 2/01. In addition every day was very windy so it would be no fun to try canoeing out in Tampa Bay or taking long bike rides.

So we decided to relax here and enjoy not being home dealing with the Polar Vortex.

For a break we took our RV on a shopping trip to Sun City Center, which is only 9 miles away. This is an old Dell Webb. 55 years old and up, community where everybody drives golf carts like in the Villages. The traffic was terrible but we got to Aldi, Walmart, Walgreens, Home Depot and Belles. We were happy to be back in camp and out of the congested area.

They rent kayaks here and they have a nice canoe trail marked with signs like above so you don’t get lost, which would be easy to do around the mangrove islands.

When you are out in the bay you can see the power plan that we rode our bikes to, last week. It looks so close but a long time ago we tried to paddle over to it and found out that we took all day to paddle there and back and never did see any Manatees.

Our Friday’s 4 mile paddle is shown in Red. We paddled down the bay on Saturday, it was not as interesting and there was a lot of boat traffic out on the bay. It was about a 3.5 mile, 1-1/2 hour paddle. It was sunny & hot.

Here are the actual weather records for the period when we were at E.G. Simmons campground. The only temperatures that were above normal are shown in Red.

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SUN 1/20 Actual Temp 68° /45° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

MON 1/21 Actual Temp 66° /36° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51° Biked 6 mi

TUE 1/22 Actual Temp 73° /43° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51° Biked 13 mi

WED 1/23 Actual  Rain 81° /50° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51° Biked 23 mi

THU 1/24   2”  Actual 73° /54° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

FRI 1/25 Actual Temp 63° /43° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51° Biked 8 mi

SAT 1/26 Actual Temp 63° /43° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

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SUN 1/27 Actual Temp 52° /45° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

MON 1/28 Actual Temp 63° /43° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51°

TUE 1/29 Actual Temp 66° /39° Windy Hist. Avg. 70°/51° Shopping

WED 1/30 Actual Temp 60° /46° Windy Hist. Avg. 71°/52° Biked 6mi

THU 1/31 Actual Temp 65° /48° Windy Hist. Avg. 71°/52°

FRI 2/01 Actual Temp 75° /46° Calm-PC Hist. Avg. 71°/52° Canoe 4 mi

SAT 2/02 Actual Temp 77° /52° Calm-PC Hist. Avg. 71°/53° Canoe 3.5 mi

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It looks like the cold spell is over and we plan to leave after the Super Bowl on Monday morning 2/04.  We will head inland and south to try to get a campsite at Pioneer Park It is a county park, on the Peace River in Zolfo Springs. On 02/07 we have reservations for two weeks at W.P. Franklin, Corps of Engineers campground, by a lock and on an island in the Caloosahatchee River near Ft. Myers, FL It looks like the weather will be in the 80’s when we get there.

After two weeks of cool weather everything changed. The highs for the next two weeks are forecast to be in the low 80’s.

We left our Tampa Bay campground on Monday morning and headed to a Pioneer Park, a county park campground, on the Florida Cracker Trail. We came here because it is on the Peace River, a popular canoe trail, that flows south from near Winter Haven down the center of the state to Port Charlotte. During the dry season it has all sorts of shallow limestone shoals and sand bars. However the heavy rains about a week ago brought the river way up so we had 1000 CFS at our campground in Zolfo Springs.

With the high water we wanted to do at least an 8 or 9 mile trip and there is only one outfitter and only runs shorter sections, and wanted $30 to do a special shuttle to take us up to Paynes Creek. This would be a 11 mile paddle.

Each nite hundreds of vultures would nest for the night in the big trees. This is about 1/5 ^th of the group we saw.

We were really disappointed with this campground which was just a big field with all the campers right on top of each other but they had 50 amp electric & water hookups. They have a nice primitive campground right along the river with lots of shade but Peggy likes to have power.

One good thing was that the RV right behind us was from Ohio and they offered to shuttle our canoe and us upstream to Paynes Creek State Park on Tuesday morning, using the rack on their Subaru Outback.

It was a easy shuttle up the state highway to a highway put-in next to the park.

He took this picture when we launched.

The current was fast and even with a stop for lunch at a wayside park near Wauchula, it only took us 3 hours. We saw at least 12 alligators basking along the banks on this sunny day. At this level there were no shallow spots, just a few trees here and there to avoid.

Peggy at our lunch stop. There was nobody else on the river. The section from Paynes Creek to this wayside park in Wauchula was very remote and pretty, after this point there were many homes along the way to the take-out in our campground.

We brought our lightweight canoe cart with us so we could pull our canoe back  to our campsite you can see in the distance.

Adjacent to the campground is a nice museum and a series of old FL buildings.

Known as the Florida Cracker Museum, it has stories and artifacts about the original settlers called crackers. They say the name was from the crack of their buggy whips. Each year during the last few weeks in February a big festival is held here.

We got to one of our favorite, but hard to get in without reservations, campgrounds which is on an island next to the Franklin Lock in the big cross Florida river called the Caloosahatchee.

We  got site 7 which has a beautiful view of the river and big tree that often has Bald Eagles looking for fish.

On Friday morning we took the nice paddle one mile downstream and then up Telegraph Creek for two miles which is a tiny creek that passes through a small neighborhood and then into a wilderness setting. There are lots of trees across the river but it can be navigated with no portages. Hover it was much more work then our 11 mile float down the Peace River.

The weather finally turned warm, red temps are above normal. No rain.

SUN 2/03 Actual Temp 81° /60° Sunny Hist. Avg. 72°/53° Ruskin

MON 2/04 Actual Temp 70° /61° Sunny Hist. Avg. 75°/48° Zolfo

TUE 2/05 Actual Temp 77° /54° Sunny Hist. Avg. 75°/48° Canoe 11 mi

WED 2/06 Actual Temp 82° /52° Sunny Hist. Avg. 75°/48°

THU 2/07 Actual Temp 83° /60° Sunny Hist. Avg. 76°/55° Ft Myers

FRI 2/08 Actual Temp 81° /63° Partly Cld. Hist. Avg. 76°/55° Canoe 7 mi

SAT 2/09 Actual Temp 81° /63° Partly Cld. Hist. Avg. 77°/55°

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Warm weather returned,. We got in two nice bike rides and a paddle up the Caloosahatchee and then up Hickey Creek past the park area since the river had more water from Wednesday’s 1” rain. There was not much wildlife except for a few turtles. But it is a worthwhile scenic paddle.

The cool thing was three more Phoenix RV’s showed up with old friends, that we had camped last year at the same campground with Barry & Sue from MI and Fred and Joan from VA but the big surprise was Bud & Pat from the Cleveland area. It turns out they came to our home 3 years ago to see our RV to see if they liked our choice and bought the same model.

We were in Campsite 7

Barry & Sue were in Campsite 13

Fred & Joan are in Campsite 10 and Bud & Pat are in Campsite 9

Today we took a little short paddle over to the Franklin Locks which is adjacent to our island campground.

We watch the lock fill adding 2.5’ so that the boats could head upstream,  Here is a sailboat proceeding out of the lock.

We stopped at the nice visitor center and then paddled 1/2 mile back to our campsite. If you camped here without a boat it would be a 13 mile drive since there is no way to walk across the big lock.

The weather finally turned warm, red temps are above normal.

SUN  2/10 Actual Temp 84° /63° Hist. Avg. 77°/55° Bike 13 Mi

MON  2/11 Actual Temp  85° /65° Hist. Avg. 77°/56°

TUE  2/12 Actual Temp 84° /68° Hist. Avg. 77°/56°

WED  2/13 Actual Temp 73° /56° Hist. Avg. 77°/56° Rain 1”

THU  2/14 Actual Temp 78° /48° Hist. Avg. 77°/56° Canoe 8 Mi

FRI  2/15 Actual Temp 79° /58° Hist. Avg. 77°/56°  Shopping

SAT  2/16 Actual Temp 80° /59° Hist. Avg. 77°/56° Bike 12 Mi

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We hoped we could find a site at Fort Desoto in St Petersburg but there were no reservations available starting on a Thursday so we decided to go back to one of our favorite campgrounds, Lithia Springs. We got there at 9 AM on Thursday morning and they said that 5 people hadn’t renewed and maybe somebody would be leaving, check-out time is 11 AM. We lucked out, a camper left Site 37 which was the same river campsite we stayed at last month. It was the only site that became available that day.

We found out that they never cleaned out the log  jam on the Alafia River so if we paddled we would still need to do a portage. We decided to stick to biking around the Fish Hawk Ranch bike trails.

It was really hot so we did two early morning 13 mile tandem bike trips on Friday and Sunday It finally cooled down on Monday and on our last day we did another 12 mi trip. Other than a short in and out all three trips were on totally different trails. Peggy loves the nice curvy paths in the natural areas. For our first time we saw an alligator next to one of the ponds.

One of the trails goes right down the middle of the high tension power lines but most of the trails are in very scenic areas.

We will head back to Cypress Glen campground in the Withlacoochee National Forest on Tuesday, we have reservation for the same site we stayed at in December. They will close this campground after 3 days as they are finally getting around to re-leveling all the campsites. Bud & Pat , who we camped with at WP Franklin, with the Phoenix Cruiser from Highland Hts, OH are supposed to be there when we get there.

Our plans are to visit our friends Paul & Helen in Inverness when we leave the campground, we will then head over to Silver Springs to do a scenic paddle.

The weather turned really warm like last year, the red temps are above normal.

SUN  2/17 Actual Temp 83° /64° Hist. Avg. 78°/56°

MON  2/18 Actual Temp 85° /71° Hist. Avg. 78°/56°

TUE  2/19 Actual Temp 89° /68° Hist. Avg. 78°/56°

WED  2/29 Actual Temp 83° /70° Hist. Avg. 77°/56°

THU  2/21 Actual Temp 82° /70° Hist. Avg. 73°/55°

FRI  2/22 Actual Temp 86° /72° Hist. Avg. 73°/55°

SAT  2/23 Actual Temp 86° /72° Hist. Avg. 74°/56° Bike 13 Mi

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We left Lithia Springs on Tuesday morning. On Sunday & Monday we has two nice bike rides on the Fish Hawk Ranch trails. Bud & Pat were camped at Silver Lake in their Phoenix Cruiser wondering if we were coming. They thought we were coming on Monday. They were forecasting rain for Tuesday but it did not rain at Silver Lake, but we just hung around camp for the day.

On Wednesday we decided to paddle down the Withlacoochee River to Hog Island. We took a rest break at one of the three group tent spots and then paddle around the island and back to our campground. The river was high because of last week’s rain, it was running 600 cfs, so it took a little longer getting back. The total trip was 9 miles, and it took 3 hours. If we could have arranged for a shuttle down to Nobleton, I think it would have been the same distance but faster because it would all be downstream paddling. You can actually do a 7 mile bike shuttle since the bike trail goes right past the take-out in Nobleton.

On Thursday, Bud & Pat suggested we do a bike ride on the new 10’ wide Good Neighbor asphalt bike trail. We could take it all the way to the center of Brooksville and have lunch at the Main Street Café. It was a good choice, great sandwich and black beans with  rice. It was a nice long rest stop, so Peggy didn’t get tired at all on the 27 mile ride on our tandem.

On Friday Bud & Pat headed to Holder Mine campsite in the same State  Forest, we headed to our our friends Paul & Helen’s house  in Inverness. We hoped to provide them with a little support since Paul is scheduled for major heart surgery on Monday.

Before we got there we did another 18 mile bike trip on the Withlacoochee State Trail from Floral City to north of Inverness. This part is very pretty next to the city parks lakes. There are several road crossings but no major roads and the traffic usually yields to bikers,

Helen cooked us a great dinner and we really enjoyed their hospitality. It’s now spring in FL, take a look at Helen’s flowers. We left their home at 9 AM on Friday and by 10:30 AM we were at Silver Springs State Park boat launch.

Since the State Park took over from the old owners they now allow you to put-in right at the head of the spring. They also rent canoes and kayaks. We did a 4 mile paddle up and back to the campground’s boardwalk which would be a one mile walk if you wanted to launch there. If you say you are a camper from state park there is no charge for boat or persons to launch right  at the spring. There is plenty of parking but weekends are busy.

The river is back to its crystal clear state of years ago. The park service is now doing a really great job maintaining the river and the grounds. We saw lots of birds, gators and turtles. They introduced a canoe trail that you can paddle up or down the river or a narrow water trail. We paddled about 4 miles which took us only two hours even with the picture taking.

We were on our way by 1 PM but we decided to stay at the local Walmart only a mile away and do some shopping at Aldi’s & Walmart and then stay overnight. On Sunday morning we expect to drive over to Juniper Springs in the Ocala National Forest. On Sunday it is usually easy to get a walk-up site without making reservations. So we will see how we do. There is no power or water hookups but they have nice showers and easy access and shuttle to run the 7 mile Juniper Run, we have been paddling this river since 1969.

The weather bureau kept forecasting rain but none happened other than a 1/10” drizzle. The red temps are above normal.

SUN 2/24 Actual Temp 84° /63° Hist. Avg. 74°/56° Bike 13 Mi

MON 2/25 Actual Temp 79° /59° Hist. Avg. 74°/56° Bike 12 Mi

TUE 2/26 Actual Temp 74° /56° Hist. Avg. 75°/48°

WED 2/27 Actual Temp 79° /57° Hist. Avg. 75°/48° Canoe 9 Mi

THU 2/28 Actual Temp 79° /56° Hist. Avg. 75°/48° Bike 27 Mi

FRI 3/01 Actual Temp 82° /56° Hist. Avg. 75°/48° Bike 18 Mi

SAT 3/02 Actual Temp 82° /58° Hist. Avg. 74°/56° Canoe 4 Mi

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On Sunday morning we left our Walmart overnight in Silver Springs and got to Juniper Springs by  8 am. It was full from Saturday night campers but the place would be pretty empty by noon checkout time. But I was then informed that we could not canoe Juniper Run because of a bad bear somewhere in the Nat’l Forest north of SR40. They also said that none of the through hikers on the Florida Trail could come into the forest and had to make a new trail to bypass it. This is a really stupid policy. If a bear got used to people having food in the back country and is bothering people the bad bear should be euthanized. They decided to eliminate the people who are hiking & canoeing. This is not a common policy in National Parks. If a bear goes bad, they are eliminated. I hope somebody reviews this policy. This park does some weird things like last year taking two full years to fix a boardwalk damaged in a hurricane. It could have been fixed in a month if they wanted people to enjoy the park.

So we went over to nearby Alexander Springs for two nights. It’s been at least 10 years since we stayed here. It is not that good for biking or canoeing. Most people just paddle near the spring and take out where they put-in. We used to canoe the river from the bridge on 445 down to 52 Landing. You need to run your own shuttle and the sandy roads didn’t look that good after the rain. The park volunteers had no information about road conditions. After the weekend crowd left the campground was pretty empty. It is near the Paisley mountain bike trails but we don’t do single track with our tandem on the deep sandy trails.

So We left early Tuesday for Ocean Pond National Forest campground near Lake City. We drove through some light rain on our way and found out that they got flooding rain for the past two days, we only had a nighttime rain at Alexander Springs. It’s only a 3 hour drive north to the Osceola National Forest. We got here on March 5th, about the same time as last year but last year we were never able to get a campsite with power hookups. There are only 19 power sites and 30 without power but have water hookups and 18 rustic sites.. All the campsites with power were full but an hour after we arrived an RV pulled out of a power site 3 days early which we quickly snagged making Peggy very happy. We will be here until we have a good driving window for Cleveland, Probably not until 3/12 at best.

A cold spell hit on Tuesday. Red temps are above normal.

SUN 3/03 Actual Temp 86° /61° Hist. Avg. 74°/48°

MON 3/04 Actual Temp 81° /63° Hist. Avg. 74°/48° Night Rain

TUE 3/05 Actual Temp 54° /36° Hist. Avg. 72°/48° Light Rain

WED 3/06 Actual Temp 57° /35° Hist. Avg. 72°/48° Sunny

THU 3/07 Actual Temp 67° /43° Hist. Avg. 73°/48° Bike 14 Mi

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We watched  the weather reports and it looked like if we left Monday we would have good weather all the way from Florida to Cleveland assuming we made it in 2-1/2 days.

We left Monday 3/11 before sunrise at 7 AM EDT. We took US-301 all the way though Georgia and US321 in SC getting to Columbia, SC by 1:30 PM. We got gas and took the bypass around Charlotte to avoid slow traffic and got to Mooresville, NC by 4 PM. Plenty of time for shopping and some fast food. Another Walmart over night.

If we get out of here around 7:30 AM tomorrow we expect to be back home in Ohio by 4 PM assuming the day goes as smooth as today. We did get two brief light showers Monday but there is no rain in the forecast.