Monday, December 22, 2008

Spring in winter

Another Spring! And Winter isn’t here for another day or so! Fished, canoe’d and snorkeled at Silver Glen Springs; camped, fished and biked at Salt Springs. Time to move on to Juniper Springs for a couple of nights where there is NO electricity - - just a gorgeous old spring and wide trails and boardwalks that take you to another but secluded Hemlock Spring. Our pretty little Christmas tree sat out on the picnic table instead of being cooped up in the trailer all day!

All the brochures say that the spring is a constant 72 degrees but we know that it is only 70 degrees! But floating over the deep “V” of the spring and seeing the water rushing up out of it made it all worth the goosebumps that worked their way thru our wetsuits! We sure warmed up fast when we got out because the temps above the water line said 80!

Sunday- Now, winter is here! And we’ve moved to the Florida Greenway, just south west of Ocala and will be at the Ross Prairie Campground for a week. A cold front went thru this evening, complete with a rainstorm that quit just in time to attend Dunnellon’s version of Lights Before Christmas with Santa Over the Rainbow at Rainbow Springs State Park where Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived aboard a lighted pontoon boat.