Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
News, trail updates, and conservation issues, as well as our explorations of trails around Florida and the world.
I received an email yesterday from Bonnie, a reader who’s visiting the Port Richey area soon. She asks: I’ll have a few days to do some hiking – perhaps a 2 -3 day backpack trip – something within a 50 mile radius of the Port Richey area preferably…So – which one of your books would …
Yesterday, Google launched a product that will make some hikers leap for joy and others wince. We go to the woods to get away from it all, right? At least some of us do. Well, with the new My Tracks application for Android-powered cell phones (like the T-Mobile G1), you can beam a real-time track …
Where in Florida am I? I took this image at sunset today (with the moon rising), and it wasn’t on a hiking trail. However, there are several excellent places to hike within 15 minutes of here, three of which are in one of my 50 Hikes guides. I’m headed out over the next two days …
It’s officially winter in Florida, when thoughts turn to pink flamingos … and Everglades National Park. For the next 90 days or so, it’s prime time to visit this unique wilderness along the tip of Florida’s peninsula. “There are no other Everglades in the world,” wrote Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, advocate for the creation of the …
Hi, gang! We returned from Apalachicola today in a driving rain, the Gulf of Mexico so dark and silvery it felt like driving through a Clyde Butcher photograph. Rob and I just celebrated our third wedding anniversary AND my latest book, “Orlando & Central Florida: An Explorer’s Guide” is turned in, AND the Florida Hiking …
Spent last Sunday hiking a kick-butt section of the Torreya Hiking Trail about 1/3 of the way around the loop, going counterclockwise from the blue trail out past the Confederate gun emplacements near the Gregory House. A living history group had just decamped the night before. Joining me was Judd from our FTA Tallahassee office, …
St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is rather remote. To get there, you need to drive through Indian Pass, where the Indian Pass Raw Bar will tempt with its old Florida funk and fresh oysters. It isn’t anywhere near the beaten path – it’s about as far as you can get from I-10 in the Florida …
I was in search of the new interpretive trail at Fisheating Creek last Monday when time overtook me the first try, and dusk overtook me the second try. However, I managed to get some clarifications from folks who’ve been there and seen it. The interpretive trail starts from at the new FWC office along SR …
Sea grapes on the Beach Hammock Trail: Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. This was once an unbroken canopy. I’m exploring natural areas in Broward County for my new “Exploring Florida’s Botanical Wonders” and am saddened to see the extent of Hurricane Wilma’s destruction on the natural habitats in this area. Certainly, we saw what happened …
