Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Florida Caverns State Park


It’s a clear, cool morning but gaining warmth as the sun climbs.
 
We breakfast and pull the bikes out of the Beast (quite easy, even with the trailer still hitched – another pleasant surprise.)  We are still hitched because we may leave today, but a few miles on the butter smooth asphalt roads and we decide this is a perfect place to build up our bike muscles and try out Patty’s sore arm.  All went well.  We paid another night’s fee and rode/hiked the day away. 


Florida Caverns is another of the CCC built parks as the craftsmanship of the stone work and hand made doors of the Visitors Center attest. 
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Outside, they left the limestone rough with all it’s imbedded fossils showing.


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While inside, the stone is faced smooth as a cathedral around the huge fireplace.


Each  time we visit a CCC park, we feel a sense of pIMG_1078ride that we have Carl Meyer’s CCC career to reflect on… and each time we also see this guy.

I think Patty has a little crush on him.





They weren’t running the Cavern tour today, but offered a  “virtual tour” by video for the claustrophobics amongst us.
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“No, Honey.  They said no cave tours today.”




“Flood Plain” and “Tunnel Cave” trails led us to Lilies, big hardwood trees and forests of cypress knees.
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