Saturday morning hike, Jan 16th, 2016

Went to the trail north of the river at Little Manatee River State Park.  It is only a few miles from home and I always enjoy it.

Got started at 8:20 am.  Temperature was 61 deg and sunny.  Perfect conditions.

Low areas of the trail on the western loop were flooded last weekend.  Had to wade through water up to a foot deep in places.  That wasn't too bad but I didn't feel like changing shoes and socks at every flooded section today.

I skipped the west loop today and took the east loop and went on some and went on some two track trails in the northeast area of the park to make up for the lost milage from not taking the western loop.

I still ran into one area of water on the two track trail but was able to skirt around it with out getting my feet wet.

The sun was bright and everything was clean from the rain yesterday.  I enjoyed the views and sights.

The following logs the route I took today.

https://www.gaiagps.com/api/objects/track/446aba65c1a8bf37685fac784f0aa1ab.gpx/?publickey=t3SqbxCPNADcSYXG05ElQcW3

Below is a photo of the two track trail.

Below it is a photo of what I believe is a fungus that looks like fuzz balls.