Tallahassee and St George Island

One day we drove east a few miles from Tallahassee to visit a park with an Indian mound.  Pretty countryside outside the city, and the mound was in a lovely park with towering, moss-clad live oaks.

The next day we drove west from Tallahassee, then south through the Apalachicola National Forest.  Once out of the city, we drove through miles of loblolly pines, most of them tree farms,with occasional roads running off through the red dirt.

Once at the Gulf, we drove west, then across the shallow bay to St George Island and down to the state park at the end of the island.  We had a fine afternoon walking the beach, swimming in the still warm (to me) gulf and enjoying the sunny, eighty degree day.

We settled into the 70's Buccaneer Motel overlooking the gulf

then drove back across the bay to the town of Apalachicola for dinner, on the way enjoying a long sunset spread out across the western sky.

We woke to a red sunrise

after breakfast drove down the coast to St Joe State Park.  The last 8 miles of the spit is wilderness, so we parked and walked a couple of miles on the beach.  It was a warm but stormy day with a good breeze, but we had a fine walk (I forgot my camera, so it goes.) We drove on down the coast to Mexico Beach for drinks and shrimp at the Toucan.

Back to Tallahassee in the rain,greeted by a Shriner along the way.