We've been doing a lot of biking and trying to find "free" things to do to occupy our time. We live in a really boring city where your choice of activities are movies or bowling..movies get expensive and bowling gets old. So, we recently found The Preserves!! They are not too far from our house so I bought a bike rack for my car and last week we drove out there! I had planned it for days and it was raining in the morning. Luckily it cleared up enough for us to get out there later!
It's basically a wildlife preserve with a bunch of lakes around. However, we only saw a hawk, cardinal, more birds, a bunny! and a HUGE SNAKE! I don't think I'd ever seen a snake like that that wasn't behind glass. It was right in the middle of the bike path but did not bother us. Phew!
This is Marc's it's super bright outside face--he found this geocache called "I'm not a nut" hanging from a tree. There are a bunch of geocaches out there but some do NOT seem worth the risk to me. HUGE SPIDERS in the woods.
The water was so clear! And yeah my neck was all orange from spray on sunscreen on those cheap ball necklaces...but look at the cute little turtle on the necklace! I got it at a little shop and wear it almost every day.
Are there any cool places to go biking where you live? This place is nice because cars aren't allowed! There's a long paved section and then trails (some for biking some more for hiking) coming off it at different sections.
Kristi(E)
oooh this looks like fun!
ReplyDeletewe have a 20 mile bike trail by us, but it's not very scenic.. some woods and a lot of people's back yards and then just the town.
We could go up to Chicago and ride along the lake, but that's kind of difficult because you have to travel just to ride your bike and then you have to find parking..
Yea this is maybe a 15 minute drive, I just recently found it. Pretty much the only place other than driving an hour into Tampa.
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