Potts Preserve: A walk in the wild

Day 176
​Inverness FL

I'm up bright and early. Katie hits the snooze button on her alarm and goes back to sleep. The weather is lovely and coffee gets brewed. Trapped in our laptop is a princess, and she needs help. I waste the away the next hour playing Super Mario Bros (original SNES game) enjoying some time with Yoshi and coffee. Life is good.

Discussions are had and decisions get made. We are going to tackle an unknown hiking trail that winds through the preserve. The map we have is fairly decent and it points us to a marked trail. For the next 2 1/2 miles little splotches of orange paint guide us through the forest. Let's hope that it all works out and we don't get lost.

Florida's heat and humidity are starting to take a toll. The hike is hot and we are both sticky. Katie runs out of water on the return trip and my stash was getting pretty low. It was a nice hike, but nothing special. Today we stay home and take in the last of our time at Potts Preserve. It's a nice place if you want to get away from it all. So go ahead and do it, visit the back-wood swamps of central Florida.