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Wednesday, March 2nd –Blue Springs State Park to Jonathan Dickinson State Park – Jupiter, Florida – Day 23 

 The morning involved Gen organizing the kids clothing (I will get around to showing everyone how we organized the trailer) and a little bit of tension. I think everyone was tired of moving so much and needed a break. The day before was really long walking all over Kennedy Space Center and everyone was exhausted. I was in a bad mood for some reason or another. Unfortunately, today wasn’t the day for a break. We had to get packed and move on. 

 We went to the main park portion of Blue Springs State Park. We saw a few manatees but they were far away and not that easy to observe. They have a beautiful boardwalk so we walked along and kept stopping to look at the water. The water was crystal clear and the fish were plentiful. We saw a bunch of Gar (shout out to Uncle Aaron Jib who introduced me to the Gar when he saw some in the Trent Severn) and a variety of other fish. The springs area didn’t allow fishing so there were schools of big fish swimming around. There was also a huge amount of birds hunting them, sitting on logs and diving in occasionally to try to catch a fish. 


 After spending some time in the sun and walking around, we left to travel to Jonathan Dickinson State Park. A 3 hour drive that was broken up by dinner in a park that had a magnificent view of the Cape Canaveral launch building. You don’t appreciate its size until you see it from a distance and it stands above everything else on the island. The play structure was pretty good. 


 A further two-hour drive and we arrived at the State Park, setup and off to bed.

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