Wednesday afternoon I faced my childhood fears and took the family hiking with gators on Gainesville’s La Chua Trail on the North Rim of Florida’s Paynes Prairie State Park. “Chua,” the Timucuan Indian word for sinkhole, is a 3 mile trail from the Alachua Sink out to an observation platform in the prairie. Gators galore, and NOT the orange and blue kind! Yes. It was terrifying.
Florida Hikes
A Walk on the Wild Side: Hiking Black Bear Wilderness Area
What happens when The Adventures of Mom meets Florida Hikes? A walk on the wild side, of course! The kids and I joined dear sister Sandy and her husband, John for a morning hike at Black Bear Wilderness Area in Sanford, Florida…