Highland Hammock State Park

A few days into our stay in Highland Hammock we found a nice cat walk through the swamp. It is hard to imagine a swamp as beautiful, but this one is. While it has gators and snakes, there were none on our walk which I found comforting. The cat walk rides just above the water with a rickety railing on one side only. Worth the concerns however. Another one of the parks trails takes you a short way into the Hammock to a tree that is thought to be over 1000 years old. Back in the 40s they tried to save the tree by placing cement in the center cavity to keep the tree from rotting out. The top of the tree was blown off in a hurricane but the tree lives on.