Withlacoochee State Trail

Spent the weekend on the Withlacoochee State Trail, a paved bicycle trail that the Florida Trail shares for about 30 miles.

It's an old rail trail, so fairly straight, and gently graded up and down through this hilly area. I forgot the camera, so no pictures. Did see two turkeys, one peahen, one deer, and one silver fox, plus lots of squirrels. The trail was very busy with bicycles on Saturday morning and I spent a nice rest break at a pagoda in Floral city talking to some ex-Brits from a local cycling club. As the day started warming up though, the cyclists diminished and only us crazies were out!

Spent the night at Fort Cooper SP primitive camping area, which I shared with a Frat party. They were a little noisy late into the night, but other than that it was a good night.

The trail parrallels US41 for a lot of it's length, and there are plenty of businesses to stop by in for sodas, icecream, snacks etc., so I'm sure I didn't lose much weight this weekend!

I was hoping to make it all the way to the end of the bike trail at Gulf Jct on Sunday, but as the day started to heat up I changed plans and wimped out at Holder. I've been spending too much hiking time this summer hanging out where there is cool water, kayaking etc., and don't have the stamina for this hot blacktop stuff. Roll on cool weather!

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