After a relaxing weekend with the family, we have moved a short distance north. It is becoming more difficult each year to get into the Florida State parks without an advanced reservation but from time-to-time, spaces open up and I grab them. We got lucky at Lake Louisa State Park this week with a site that sits next to one of the three lakes in the park, Dixie Lake. The park has good walking trails and several citrus groves to explore. Unfortunately the grove have citrus canker so the park asks campers to not pick the fruit. Citrus canker is a wide spread problem in Florida. It is not harmful to people, just the trees themselves causing the fruit to drop off of the tree prior to ripening.
We are in the process of starting our slow move north. With extensive storms in the mid central region, we are in no hurry. It gives us the opportunity to explore the central areas in Florida, otherwise passed up for the coastal areas. Scattered with lakes and lone needle pines it has a northern MN feel but we are not fooled, the waters have gators and snakes.
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