24 January – Orlando to Alexander Springs

Laundry in the morning, then we headed out for the Ocala National Forest. The Ocala Forest is on an area of ancient limestone and has many springs that pump out water at a constant temperature year round. We decided to stay at Alexander Springs for a couple of nights and do some hiking. Alexander Springs is a big pool of water with a spring boil (where the spring bubbles up) that is about 30 foot deep - and you can scuba dive in it. The spring pumps out around 70 million gallons of water a day which then flows out to form a river.

We walked down to the springs to take a look around, and it was very pretty. The water is really crystal clear and the bottom of the pool is white sand. Lots of signs about alligators and Florida black bears. We didn’t see any of either, but saw lots of turkey vultures, herons and fish.

We are primitive camping, with no services, not even a phone signal this far out. Once we turned the generator off for the night it was so peaceful.

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