5/26 Thursday before Memorial Weekend. The deer in the park are not afraid of anyone and in the morning we had 6 deer eating away and just staring at us as we were getting ready to leave the park. People are feeding them and they expected food! Left around 9 and headed south and east through Ocala horse country. We have driven this route before and the horse farms are beautiful but this time about 30% of the farms were for sale and many were just abandoned. Got a little lost in Ocala but found our way no thanks to the GPS and arrived at Salt Springs right after noon for a one night stopover. Our cell phone and internet service are still not working well and we hope once we get to St. Augustine that we will finally be able to go on line again.
Salt Springs Recreational Area, Ocala National Forest, Salt Springs, Florida
54 sites with no hookups and 106 with full hookups, $16 with Golden Age Pass.
We only stayed one night and we were glad that we made a reservation because they were turning away campers the Thursday before Memorial Weekend. One can hike, bike, paddle canoes, fish, picnic, bird watching and swim, snorkel and scuba in the springs. This is a natural spring with potassium, magnesium and sodium salts so hence the name Salt Springs. There is no privacy in the campground but it is still very nice. Snorkeling you could see a lot of colorful fish, some Otters and a few Manatees. Very refreshing! It was not crowded at all during the week but school gets out in the next week so most weeks in the summer and especially the weekends it will be crowded. This is the strongest current that I have ever snorkeled at and it took me some time to get back up to the steps to get out of this spring. I had to take my flippers off and walk back and my muscles will hurt tomorrow. Very enjoyable!
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