A southern live oak
Fairchild Oak trunk
We have a TV problem at our new campground. No OTA stations and the funky cable system, which requires a cable box (free) doesn’t seem to work either. So we are facing 2 weeks with no TV – a period which includes the finale of Big Bang Theory. This is not good. And it is going to make me stir crazy.
Jett basically kicked me out of the RV yesterday, demanding that I go check out the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park just down the road a bit. Well, I couldn’t do that because it was closed on Tuesdays, so I did the next best thing: I checked out Bulow Creek State Park, right next to the plantation ruins.
We have found the Florida state parks to be very nice and very well maintained. Bulow Creek is no exception. But it is a small park whose main feature is trees. More specifically, southern live oak trees – huge, hulking trees that are made more impressive by the Spanish moss dangling from their branches. The main tree is the Fairchild Oak, which is nearly 90 feet tall, about 300 feet wide and perhaps 500 years old. An impressive tree. Admiring it took about 5 minutes.
The other attraction of the park is nature trails, the longest of which is over 6 miles. I went about 200 yards down this trail. Seems nice, but I was wearing sandals and wasn’t about to go trekking.