1056 November 22, 2023 Fort Clinch State Park

One last walk through Crooked River State Park.  New discoveries every day!  

The River Trail.

Today I saw a gopher tortoise.  This is a cool sighting.  These turtles spend 85% of their lives underground.  A five-year-old tortoise is only as big as a tangerine. A ten-year-old tortoise is the size of a softball.  These tortoises can’t make baby tortoises until they are twenty-five years old.  Not sure how old this guy was but he was about the size of a dinner plate.

Pretty red cardinal.

SOOOOO many squirrels!

Today was moving day again.  We had another short trip over the Florida line to Fernandina Beach and Fort Clinch State Park.   Our campsite has a view of the Atlantic Ocean if you stand on the picnic table and look out over the dunes.

This armadillo was visiting our neighbor.

We both took walks on the beach.

Tim saw this tortoise near the boardwalk.

This evening, at sunset, we drove to Fort Clinch.  The museum and fort were closed.  We walked out to the river as the sun went down.