Lithia Springs & Fish Hawk Ranch

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On Wednesday night Bob took us out for an outstanding dinner at a Mexican Restaurant only 1 mile from our camp. Lavilla Mexican Grill is a small family type restaurant run by a couple from Mexico City. It is not Tex-Mex, these are well prepared dinners at prices you can afford. We highly recommend it.

Fish Hawk Ranch Trails

Right next to our campground is a housing development that has miles of beautiful concrete trails that wind through natural areas with lots of wildlife. These are shown in Orange on the map above. Another benefit for us is there are two large grocery stores both Publix and Winn Dixie that we can ride our bikes to. I use panniers on my bike to carry groceries.

Today all of the sudden we finally got warm weather, the temps got into the high 70’s.

The river was a low 90 cfs but it looked high enough for us to paddle both upstream and downstream.

So Peggy & I launched our canoe near our campsite and Bob did a seal launch into the river.

We only paddled 4-1/2 miles altogether. It took us an hour to paddle upstream to the Lithia-Pinecrest bridge. We saw lots of big turtles but no gators.  We paddled back downstream past the camp to the outlet of the Spring and then back to camp in another hour. Bob said it looked good and with no gators he may try his SUP.