Slowpokes Adventures

Delta Nights

The summer torque of the life giver is eased at last Life exchanges melodic tunes The firment fades into the dusk So as existance here on the lagoon

Picturesque Adventures at Lake D’Arbonne State Park, Louisiana

In this article, I explain why visiting Lake D’Arbonne State Park has been a super pleasurable experience.

It has truly been some time since I have put down my thoughts in electronic media. After much debate, I have decided to give it another try. The Slowpokes are currently on an epic southern odyssey encompassing most every southern state and nearly two months of travel time. I will have many stories to share.Continue reading “Back to Writing”

A One of a Kind Day in Nature

Come along with me on an adventure today! Today started like most days volunteering here at Holton Creek River Camp on the the Beautiful Suwanee River in North Florida. It was a bit chilly when I first went out to do my daily dose of exercise. Cold, but not as cold as it probably wasContinue reading “A One of a Kind Day in Nature”

Co-Champion Cypress Tree

Just a very short walk from the Holton Creek River Camp, stands one of the prized features of the real Florida, the largest tree in the state, the co-champion Bald Cypress tree. This ancient wonder was already well established and probably known by the first Americans long before the first Spaniards’ feet stepped off aContinue reading “Co-Champion Cypress Tree”

Come Along

Come along. Share my journey and then start your own. Time is that malevolent illusion that seems to rule all we do. Leaving a secure information technology job at a corporate health care company, the idea was to be free from those ties that bind, to travel to remote parts of the country and toContinue reading “Come Along”

Holton Creek River Camp

Nestled at mile 140.9 of the lovely Suwannee River is the second of the five Florida State Park River Camps, the Holton Creek River Camp. With this article I wish to share the features of the camp and perhaps entice the reader enough to contemplate a journey that includes a layover in this majestic aquaticContinue reading “Holton Creek River Camp”

The Suwanee

Dark meandering wonder, an aquifer transversing an ancient shallow sea. Seemingly random dictate into porous, brittle limestone. Water stained so dark with tanin like swathes of opaque alchemy laid by the river goddess, Melusina.

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

Thousands of wild, pristine, bayous distinguished by ‘cheniers’. These ancient formations composed of sand and shell fragments allow for woodland vegitation not normally associated with the coastal plain providing shelter and a great diversity of wildlife habitat. Read more about Anahuac

Fort Travis and the Point Bolivar Lighthouse

Walking the grounds here a blend of the historical and natural world. Among the bastions, the Brown Pelicans now the defenders of this citadel made to withstand all but the forces of the storm. The old blackened Bolivar Lighthouse standing like a sentry to 6000 or more lives lost in the hurricane of 1900. AContinue reading “Fort Travis and the Point Bolivar Lighthouse”