Yesterday, I told you about the history aspect of our nature hike. Today I share with you the nature study aspect of our hike. This park afforded us the opportunity to see butterflies, a wide variety of trees, animal tracks, sea life and more. Here is a sampling of the photos we took.

Today, we visited Tomoka State Park. This turned out to be such an interesting place! On our lunch break, I noted that we probably couldn't see all there was to see in a single day. It simply isn't possible. I do believe we'll make repeated trips in order to really explore all we can (whatever that means!).

While today would have been a perfect day for canoeing, our goal was an any-weather hike, discovering nature and history. The hike is a half-mile trail which winds its way through the oak hammocks that were once inhabited by Timucuan (TI-moo-kwan) Indians.  (For those who are unaware, a  hardwood hammock is a "dense stand of broad-leafed trees that grow on a natural rise of only a few inches in elevation". They occur on patches of limestone, sand, and shell at elevations that usually do not flood.)