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COMPLETED Florida Overnight Hike - Jonathan Dickinson State Park - February 2012




My husband and I are going to go on a small overnight hike at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in February. It will be a nice change for us to experience the Florida outdoors - the sounds, smells and sights. Can't wait to make the memories.
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Update: We spent one night camping in the park. We had a 7.5 - 8 mile hike to our campsite. The air was steamy! We heard and saw a pileated woodpecker - what a lot of ruckas he made - and he is huge! I guess there are two birds (or two pairs?) in the park. I wondered what those wooden sticks were growing out of the ground and later found out from the park rangers that they are Cypress Knees. Hiking out, we stopped for a break in the shade and a turtle (golpher turtle?) came over to check us out. We got rained on the last mile of the hike but it was a soft, warm rain and it felt great!
Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty is it finished.

~Anonymous, Navajo Night Chant

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