Thursday, December 24, 2009

Sunday’s Hike

On Sunday afternoon we went with a friend to Apalachee Regional Park, a new county park that is very near our home. The hiking/cross-country running trail winds around open fields and through woods and by Lake Lafayette.  A kayaker went by on the cypress-filled lake as we walked near the shore.

This ancient vine caught our eyes. (Sounds more painful than it actually was!)

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Apparently, the wild hogs are creating their usual havoc with the land, and so traps have been placed in an effort to eradicate them.

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While we saw evidence of their existence in there, we thankfully did not see any in or out of the traps. I find wild hogs interesting from a distance and prefer to view them from within the relative safety of an enclosed vehicle.

It was a nice trail and with its close proximity, we will, no doubt, go back. One word of advice if you go: find a map online and print it and take it with you. There is little in the way of trail marking and no maps available on site. It is not a huge area and it would be hard to get lost for long considering the boundaries, but still I like to know where I am going and approximately where I am.

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