Sometimes a happy accident can become a main event, and this is what Judy and I experienced when we were trying to find Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park. Google Maps gave us a route through Collier County, and had I looked closer I might have figured out what was going on, but since I didn’t, what came after we turned off of State Road 29 was a lovely surprise.
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A friend and I agreed to meet early one morning to drive through the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. Talk about a comedy of errors! First, we planned our adventure for a day that the Drive is closed. Next, the park where we were to meet has closed the part of the park that allows access to the trail we had hoped to walk on. But we found that the St. Johns Water Management District had already come up with a solution that really worked in our favor, and if you click the link you will find that we needn’t have gone stumbling blindly around, because the WMD works hard to get us the information we need.
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