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| 7.8 miles from the Sugar Mill Ruins to the Fairchild Oak! |
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| Pick a trail map! |
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| We walked to get a view of Bulow Creek! |
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| What a view! |
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| Canoe Launch! |
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| Cistern from the 1820's |
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| Red Bellid Woodpecker! |
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| 1 mile Sugar Mill Trail! |
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| Some of our Walkers! |
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| Mian attraction Sugar Mill from 1821! |
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| It was Florida largest and most productive sugar mill of its time! |
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| It was abandoned in 1836 during the Second Seminole War! |
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| It was sacked and burned by the Seminoles. |
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| Red Shouldered Hawk! |
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| Great shot! |
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| Walker Leida! |
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| The trai starts out in a oak hammock with scattered slash pine! |
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| Great day for hiking! |
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| Walker Trish! |
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| The trail is marked with a yellow blaze! |
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| Older live oak draped in resurrection fern! |
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| Walker Chris! |
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| I love this big trees! |
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| Crossing a dry creek! |
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| I love his big trees! |
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| During wet season this hole area is under water! |
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| Marsh Trail! |
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| A sluggish creek along the edge of a hydric hammock with cabbage palm! |
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| A Downy Woodpecker! |
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| The trail turns slightly uphill away from the creek! |
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| Emerging at a sweeping vista along the edge of wetlands of Bulow Creek! |
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| American Robin! |
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| The girls having fun! |
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| I had to check this high grasses! |
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| Walker Raquel! The trail goes uphill again! |
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| Walker Leia! |
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| Chris catching up to us! |
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| Broad bridge crossing the Cisco Dith! |
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| Walker Jose! Fossilized seashells on the rocks in the creek! |
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| The remainder of the hike sticks to the forest road! |
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| Coming to a open area! |
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| Salt Marsh of Bulow Creek! |
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| Odservation Deck on Boardman Pond! |
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| Before crossing Walter Boardman Lane! |
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| Enter the Bulow Creek south part of the Park! |
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| Crossing Salt Marsh! |
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| Cross bridge and continue into the forest! |
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| The trail is parrallels by swamp on both sides! |
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| The trail rises into a oak hammock! |
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| Resting at the Fairchild Oak! |
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| Fairchild Oak, a gaint tree though to be more than two thousand years old or more! |
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| Picture time! |
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| WildWildernessWalkers! |
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