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: Tourist Attractions
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. [...]
St. Augustine Trip (Part 2)
It's a little late for this title to be applicable because the trip was 2 months ago, but I wrote the first post related to it then with the intent to follow up with a few more. So here's (finally) the second one. While in St. Augustine (Florida), a can't-miss attraction is Castillo De San [...]
St. Augustine Trip (Part 1)
Hi everyone. I've recently fallen behind on my Life of Paul series and my Universe Just for Us series. Both of those require extra research and thought and I just have had other things going on lately. This past weekend, though, Darlene and I were able to get away for a few days and make [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 