I continued our tradition of finishing off the the year and starting the New Year Camping! We have been doing this for many years now and its a great way for us to enjoy our senior years.
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I went scouting trails in the Ocala national Forest our main goal was just a get way from town for a while. But we were scouting for primitive camping AKA dispersed camping.

Looking to head out for some primative camping as soon as possible. Worked out the bedroll much better blanket. Looks like every thing will pack on to my vintage snow shoe style chair that will be the pack frame.

Rain building for the next several days the cold front. Cool night great time to head out.. Looking to head into the bush, general gun season is about 3 weeks off so dispersed camping is open.

It will be new moon so plenty dark!

18th. Century Camping in the woods.

October 16th 2019,
Fall seems to be starting here in No. Florida. Yes the trees are starting to change color, not as brilliant as further up north.
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Took a short camping trip in the van so I had AC.
The heat has been a bit oppressive temperature in the 90's heat index over the century mark.

Barely cooling at night.

Florida Springs Trip

Beginning our trip in Palatka Florida Linda and I, heading west on State Road 100 to Lake Butler where we then headed up to Ocean pond in the Osceola National Forest. It's a very beautiful ride leisurely laid-back two-lane road through the woods.

Travel Map

The main campground at Ocean pond has many nice sites, an allows 30 days which is very unusual to the normal 14-day stay in National Forest Campgrounds. Most of the campground and the Primitive area is still 14 days, only Power and Electric Area is 30 days

Linda and I found three sites that we really liked that have sort of access to the lake for kayak and canoe.
However there are very many beautiful sites, we were mainly looking for site that has direct Lake access. Several sites are very large and would accommodate a good size family or a small group.

Linda and I then headed west on US Highway 90,
Then on to Lake Live Oak and spent the night at the Suwannee River State Park.

After stopping for 5 hours at Walmart 😱 to get two tires for the van we knew we were going to need to purchase it was something we didn't figure we were going to have to do this soon into our trip and we're hoping to put it off for a few more months but it was done and now it's over.

Continuing on the next day Linda and I visited several other springs had lunch at a little Park along the Suwannee River. Linda and I, then camped the second night at Stephen Foster State Park again on the Suwannee River.

Finally, on our third day, we proceeded back to the Osceola National Forest on our way home back to Palatka.