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.
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°
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MON 2/18 Actual Temp 85° /71° Hist. Avg. 78°/56°
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TUE 2/19 Actual Temp 89° /68° Hist. Avg. 78°/56°
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WED 2/29 Actual Temp 83° /70° Hist. Avg. 77°/56°
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THU 2/21 Actual Temp 82° /70° Hist. Avg. 73°/55°
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FRI 2/22 Actual Temp 86° /72° Hist. Avg. 73°/55°
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SAT 2/23 Actual Temp 86° /72° Hist. Avg. 74°/56° Bike 13 Mi |
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