Besides Shingle Creek Regional Park, another "urban wilderness" area that I love is Twin Oaks Conservation Area. Located on an eastern arm of Lake Tohopekaliga in Kissimmee, it offers a number of recreation opportunities for simple folks like me. First, I enjoy fishing there. To be honest, I've never actually caught a fish, or even [...]
Category: Surprise Encounters
Osceola County (FL) Wilderness Areas – Shingle Creek Regional Park
Part of my job with the Osceola County Historical Society (Osceola History) is to educate the public about some of the natural, wilderness areas in our County. We have quite a few! Here's a map I put together of the specially preserved areas throughout the county. By the way, where I work and live is [...]
Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive
One of the things I've read about in Florida that is in the Orlando area is called the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. Last Memorial Day weekend we were able to go explore it a little bit. Lake Apopka is the fourth largest lake in Florida and has a large conservation area along its North Shore. [...]
Florida’s Alafia River Rendezvous
One of my sons pointed out to me that this weekend was the Alafia River Rendezvous in Polk County, Florida. Neither of us had heard about it before and so we decided to check it out, along with my daughter-in-law and my other son. The Rendezvous is hosted by the Florida Frontiersmen and has just [...]
Upcoming Pioneer Day 2024
Well, this is not the post I intended for this week. I'm still working on the next Life of Paul post and the next Creation post, but neither are close enough to being ready. The main reason? Things have been really busy at work lately and I have fallen behind on my research and writing, [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 