{"id":99,"date":"2022-01-05T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/?p=99"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:09:48","slug":"florida-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/2022\/01\/05\/florida-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida – Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We picked a nice campground to spend an extra day at. It was great to get up this morning knowing we weren\u2019t going to be on the road today but just hanging out and relaxing. We are staying at the Devil\u2019s Den Spring campground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devil\u2019s Den is a pre-historic underground spring. Early settlers saw steam rising from the rocks surrounding it and thought it was a portal to the underworld. Only scuba divers and snorkelers can swim in it and check out the fossils and stalactites. We preferred to watch from above as the outside temperatures were in the 60\u2019s and according to the divers we talked to the water was a chilly 68-70 degrees. We enjoyed walking around and exploring the grounds. I meet the campground cat which made me miss my cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diane meeting the camp cat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Devil’s Den<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Entrance to Devil’s Den<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading down to the spring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can you see the opening to the springs? It is hiding look closer at the next picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The opening into the springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking down into the springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Only open to Scuba divers and snorkelers <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watching people enjoy the springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, showers and dumping the tanks we headed next door to the Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens. It has gardens, waterfalls and is a sanctuary to wild life. There are hundreds of different plant including a bonsai tree that is 142 years old. We spent over an hour roaming the grounds. At one point we got a bit lost and worried we would be lost there forever. But we eventually found our way back to the path out. It was a nice relaxing day and we really got a lot of steps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cedar Lake Woods and Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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50 year old staghorn fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Catcus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bamboo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Japanese bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waterfalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trees reflected in the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An island in the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waterfalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waterfalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Frank on the Japanese bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Frank by the waterfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then it was back to the campsite to relax a bit more before preparing dinner and dessert. I made a stir fry with the vegetables we had bought yesterday at the Farmer\u2019s market. It had green beans, red peppers, zucchini, squash and onions served on rice. It was delicious. Then for dessert we had strawberry shortcake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We played a game of Yahtzee this evening and Frank beat me by over a hundred points. Watched a bit of TV for the first time since we left on the trip. Did dishes and headed off to bed just before 9 pm. All this fresh air and exercise has us exhausted every night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 5, 2022 We picked a nice campground to spend an extra day at. It was great to get up this morning knowing we weren\u2019t going to be on the road today but just hanging out and relaxing. We are staying at the Devil\u2019s Den Spring campground. Devil\u2019s Den is a pre-historic underground spring. Early…Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themuellerfamily.org\/htr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}