This is the smallest campground I’ve been in. Only 30 sites. There’s much more privacy between sites in a forest of tall lodge pole pines. The trees are so tall that when you want to sit out you have to move around your campsite to catch those little patches of sun that warm your day.

Gator country! While I was taking this picture one came right up behind me. What!?

Just kidding. 🙂 I still haven’t seen an actual gator or anything else that slithers along the ground. I thought reptiles like to come out and sun themselves. I’ve walked or ridden passed a hundred places where a gator or snake would love to take a little nap. So far the lack of critter sightings has been disappointing.

Even though they aren’t that far from each other, the forest here is different than up at Conecuh where I was last week. The forest floor here is much more densely vegetated. Up in Conecuh the floor is open and layered with a thick bed of pine needles. Here there is this strange contrast of palm like plants underneath giant long needle pines that drop huge pine cones. Ok, enough of that, I think I hear crickets out there.