The hike itself was pretty decent. Dirt road usually paralleled the road walks, and we got even more of a road reprieve when the trail moved over onto the “Old Brick Highway” a preserved remnant of the 1920’s highway from Pensacola to Jacksonville. It was literally paved with brick, and was obviously originally only one lane. It appears that concrete edges were later added to provide enough width for two traffic lanes. Part of the highway was grassed over, but for the majority of the portion we hiked the brick, and even the yellow center line, was intact. After we crossed the Yellow River again (we had crossed it a week or so back on the way out of Crestview and we had thought the water looked high then, but amazingly it seemed even more flooded here) we re-entered Eglin Air Force base and our last forest section of the trail. It was not the best experience for us. The trail was used as a trash dump and target practice by the locals. I prefer to remember Blackwater as my last forest memories.
The forest ended at a short road walk down to Navarre Beach for our final leg of the trail along the Gulf beaches to the Ft Pickens terminus.
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