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Central Florida Mount Dora, Lake Apopka and Lake Louisa State Park near Clermont 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'. It would have been cheaper to stay in a PPA (Pass Port America) Campground but unfortunately, there wasn't one nearby.
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.
Flame vine starting to bloom on an old property that has been abandoned
This flame vine is climbing an old brush pile. While you can it is a flame vine it is NOT in full bloom. When in full bloom flame vines are spectacular.
Flame vine starting to bloom on an old tree stub
This flame vine is climbing an old tree. While you can it is a flame vine it is NOT in full bloom. When in full bloom flame vines are spectacular.
Immature broadwing hawk looking for dinner in Lake Louisa State Park
This hawk is a winter resident of Central Florida just like most of the snowbirds in the campground at Lake Louisa State Park.
Immature broadwing hawk looking for dinner in Lake Louisa State Park
This immature broadwing hawk was intent on catching a large grasshopper in the tall grass just below this fence post, enabling Joyce to take these pictures.
Cypress trees in Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park
Cypress trees growing along the shoreline of Lake Louisa in Lake Louisa State Park.
Picture taken from Winter Garden looking across Lake Apopka
By the time we reached Winter Garden on the south eastern edge of Lake Apopka it was time to watch the sunset from their city park. The sunset did not disappoint.
Typical Central Florida citrus grove
Central and South Florida is citrus country. Everywhere you turn you see citrus groves. People grow citrus in their yards, citrus grows wild in abandoned fields, workers are in the groves, citrus trucks are on the highways, small towns have juicing plants. In short you can see citrus activity at every turn. This is a citrus grove as seen from Lake Louisa State Park.
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