Category: Chez Martha
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On to Duluth
September 15, 2025 Low 57 degrees, high 73, sunny! Finland State Park Campground was a great place to stay, peaceful, quiet, pretty. At first national forest and state forests, make me a little nervous. They are remote, and you don’t know what crowd will frequent them. This one couldn’t have been better. It is well…
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The Whiskey Jack Trail
September 6, 2025 36 degrees at 6:00 We are on Central Time now. All the stars were out this morning! I should have gotten a picture, but it was too chilly to lay on the picnic table. We waited until 10:00 to go exploring the park, hoping for a little warmer temperatures. There were lots…
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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
March 21, 2022 Mark Zablotsky (https://www.markzphotoworkshops.com) had recommended Magnolia Gardens. I knew little about it, except that there is a 60 acre Audubon Preserve. A big sign in front listed all the tours. Martha asked what I wanted to do, and I said, “All of it.” We started by walking through the extensive gardens. Extracting…
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Kayak Rocky Bayou and Rock Creek
Saturday, March 13, 2021, We put the kayaks on Rocky Bayou in the middle of the campground, our mission to find Rock Creek and paddle up it. Paddling along the shore gave us a new perspective of this beautiful area. The near side of the Bayou is Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park that sits…
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Florida 30-A
Driving south, we crossed the Mid-Bay Bridge to drive highway 30A along the Florida panhandle coast. Martha had heard about a happening food truck place in Seaside called WaterColor. Rt.98 is the main highway traveling east-west on the panhandle, and it is a busy road. 30-A is the seaside road. I was amazed at the…
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Otter Springs
Saturday, February 27, 2021 We are staying at Otter Springs Campground. Since it’s a weekend, it is pretty full, but the spring is flooded. Apparently all the rains in Georgia have brought the levels of the Suwannee River way up, and it has flooded into these low-lying areas. Usually the springs are crystal clear, but…
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Bonavista and Puffins
Sunday, August 25, 2019 We drove the coast road north along Bonavista Bay. The coastline here is beautiful with crashing, blue-green waves. It was about an hour to Bonavista. We walked along the Bonavista harbor on a beautiful day, and went into The Mathew Legacy, a building housing a reproduction ship, The Mathew, that John…
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Clarenville and Trinity
Saturday, August 24, 2019 We took our flat tire to Clarenville, about an hour from our camp at Lockston Path Provincial Park. There was a Goodyear place, but it was closed on this Saturday, so we went across the street to Canadian Tire. Their tire service was closed too, but the rest of the store…