Spent half a day in Tomoka State Park, and found the highlight of our Florida Vacation. This park has wonderful, friendly and informative park rangers (we even got to watch part of a er-enactment for school groups).
Along the hiking trail there is a lovely bench that was build as an Eagle Scout Project. We sat there for a while and had the privilege of seeing a dolphin swimming in the water way.
We rented a canoe and headed into Manatee water, where we saw an abundance of birds and found a Manatee, who was enchanted with our canoe. It came up to us and let Ian pet it for several moments before pushing our boat over to the shore, where it than settled in next to us for a nap! We went on our way and explored the reed marshes before turning around and heading back to the boat launch. The whole canoe trip was less than 3 hours and completed our vacation!
March is perhaps the perfect time to be in this park, not very many bugs, low levels of tourists, and just enough sun that your glad you have on sunscreen!
http://www.floridastateparks.org/tomoka/
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