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Lake Louisa Lake Louisa and Lake Louisa State Park near Clermont, Florida Joyce and I are camped in Lake Louisa State Park on US-27 south of Clermont. The campground is fairly new and includes 50-amps, water with central dump station, paved interior roads and several lakes, $23.31 per-night: N28° 24.194 W81° 33.386'. We would have stayed in a PPA Campground but there wasn't a Pass Port America Campground in the area.
Lake Louisa State Park is fairly close to Disney World as in around 25-miles. It is a nice clean campground with no shade trees in the campground area. It has a lot of hiking trails and equestrian trails, several lakes and preserves several thousand acres of the sand hills forming the northwestern edge of the Lake Wales Ridge. The Lake Wales Ridge is what makes the backbone of Peninsular Florida. It contains the high ground on the peninsular although high ground around here is only 300' above sea level. The high ground is sand hills, remnants of ancient sand dunes. When these sand dunes were being created the ocean covered most of Peninsular Florida. Corals flourished in this shallow tropical sea for thousands if not millions of years. Today the remains of that coral shelf underlies most of Penisular Florida in the form of limestone. Vegetation, in the sand hills area of the Lake Wales Ridge varies from tropical rainforest plants in the moist low lying areas to arid desert plants on the tops of those sand hills. We are constantly amazed at the rich variety of plant life thriving down here.
Cypress trees lining the shore of Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park
Joyce took this picture of the cypress trees lining Lake Louisa to give you an idea of what typical Central Florida looks like. We were staying in our motorhome in the Lake Louisa State Park Campground located on Dixie Lake a mile or so away.
Cypress trees lining the shore of Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park
Cypress trees growing along the shoreline of Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park.
We can thank Joyce for capturing this quintessential snapshot of Central Florida.
Osprey are as much of Central Florida as citrus groves
Osprey are extremely common in Central Florida where they thrive on all the fresh water lakes.
It is winter and this meadow lark was "snow birding" in Central Florida like many others
This meadow lark was singing his heart out in Lake Louisa State Park.
Doe near Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park
Deer in the dim light of early evening
Riding around Lake Louisa State Park at dusk was a good time to spot deer. Joyce snapped this doe but the large buck we saw tonight was only a blur on the pictures.
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