Moeller Travels: Florida, De Funiak Springs Jan 23

Our stay here at Holley-King RV Resort has been really relaxing. When we first arrived and saw how far out it was from everything and there were very few other people around we thought the two weeks would really go slow. After you see all the pictures we took you'll figure out we had a great time.

De Funiak Springs, Florida

Our campsite taken from the pier.

Looking at Holley Lake. We had the best site in the campground.

Kay on her morning paddle around the lake.

We went exploring one day and found some Florida springs. This one is Morrison Spring.

The highlight of the park is a 250-foot diameter spring pool that produces an estimated 48 million gallons of crystal clear water each day and has been recorded to produce up to 70 million gallons a day. Three cavities allow Morrison’s frigid waters to surface from the underground aquifer. The deepest of these cavities, at approximately 300 foot in depth, eventually terminates in an underground chamber of unknown dimensions.

Here is Ponce De Leon spring. Sorry we didn't get any younger.

Max and Zoe sure liked the small fish at Ponce De Leon Spring.

Getting ready to kayak the creek out of Morrison Springs.

Kay on Morrison Creek

We kayaked from Morrison spring down the creek towards the river. This was a floating shack we found on the creek. I think I'll keep my 5th wheel.

There were several geese living in the RV park. This fellow was checking out Kay's kayak.

A young family came to the campground and camped next to us. Buddy invited Marty to go along to fish one day.

Marty enjoyed fishing on Holley Lake most every day. He gave this nice catch to Darrel and Helen who were camping behind us.

While in the area of De Funiak Springs we decided to do a little geocaching. It had been a long time and we had fun looking for several. One of the caches was to be near this old Coca Cola bottling company.

We looked and looked around the building for the cache but we think someone took this one away. It should have been back in these bushes.

Several other caches were to be found near a park in the historic down town of Defuniak Springs. Made for an enjoyable walk. There were several of these birds along the lake.

The town was sponsoring a festival in the park where there were several tents set up giving demonstrations on how things were during the Civil War period. That's one of the things we enjoy about geocaching is you stumble into things you might not otherwise know about.

There were several azalea bushes blooming in the park.

One day we took a drive down to the Gulf near Destin. The beaches are just the most beautiful we ever seen with the white sands, green water and blue skies.

Great lunch stop right on the beach.

On the way home we found an Air force museum. Marty totally enjoyed it. Kay and the dogs enjoyed it as well. There were lots of planes on display on the grounds that Kay and the dogs walked around.

P-51

SR-71 Black Bird

Maxwell makes the jet engine look big.

We celebrated Kay's birthday at Bogey's in Defuniak Springs. The food and service were fantastic and the birthday cake (key lime pie) was awesome.

On our trip last year we meet a fine family in the Redwoods of California. Dave is stationed near Destin, FL with the Coast Guard. We invited them up to have dinner with us at our campground. It had been 9 months since we saw them last. The girls sure have grown. This is Christine and Zoe sitting with me and Max.