{"id":7766,"date":"2019-05-15T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:31:13","slug":"bulow-creek-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/bulow-creek-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulow Creek State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7767\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A southern live oak\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191317a_HDR-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A southern live oak<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7768\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7768\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Farichild Oak trunk\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0514191319_HDR-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairchild Oak trunk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have a TV problem at our new campground. No OTA stations and the funky cable system, which requires a cable box (free) doesn&#8217;t seem to work either. So we are facing 2 weeks with no TV &#8211; a period which includes the finale of <em>Big Bang Theory<\/em>. This is not good. And it is going to make me stir crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Jett basically kicked me out of the RV yesterday, demanding that I go check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulow_Plantation_Ruins_Historic_State_Park\">Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park<\/a> just down the road a bit.\u00a0 Well, I couldn&#8217;t do that because it was closed on Tuesdays, so I did the next best thing: I checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulow_Creek_State_Park\">Bulow Creek State Park<\/a>, right next to the plantation ruins.<\/p>\n<p>We have found the Florida state parks to be very nice and very well maintained.\u00a0 Bulow Creek is no exception.\u00a0 But it is a small park whose main feature is trees.\u00a0 More specifically, southern live oak trees &#8211; huge, hulking trees that are made more impressive by the Spanish moss dangling from their branches.\u00a0 The main tree is the Fairchild Oak, which is nearly 90 feet tall, about 300 feet wide and perhaps 500 years old.\u00a0 An impressive tree.\u00a0 Admiring it took about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The other attraction of the park is nature trails, the longest of which is over 6 miles.\u00a0 I went about 200 yards down this trail.\u00a0 Seems nice, but I was wearing sandals and wasn&#8217;t about to go trekking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a TV problem at our new campground. No OTA stations and the funky cable system, which requires a cable box (free) doesn&#8217;t seem to work either. So we are facing 2 weeks with no TV &#8211; a period which includes the finale of Big Bang Theory. This is not good. 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