🐍 Let's Meander the Enchanted Floodplain Forest🌴 Off the Beaten Path

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY BEFORE SIGNING UP!
This is an advanced level hike. You are expected to know how to prepare for a hike in dense, primitive Florida wilderness. ASK IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
This is a one of my favorites in the month of May. Generally being our driest month, we have the opportunity to take a serene, surreal, seldom traveled walk in the woods.

Total distance will be about 9 miles

This will start out as a normal hike leaving from Hole in the Fence.
Sometime after we cross the power lines, we head off trail and head E/SE through the river floodplain. We'll just meander around, maybe to the river, back through the cypress, maybe go in circles, who knows?

In this section there is NO trail. It may involve bushwacking through dense vegetation ..This is a nice time for QUIET peaceful sauntering about

We will end up at the familiar River Overlook - We will take our main break here and then head back.

Proper footwear, trekking pole(s) suggested....there will be many roots and cypress knees. You must bring minimum one quart / liter of water. A whistle may be handy if you get separated from the group out on the floodplain.

This is an advanced level hike. You are expected to know how to prepare for a hike in dense, unmaintained wilderness.

• 🐊🐊 NO DOGS PERMITTED!
• You may be walking through dense knee high river grasses.

It can be a rather surreal experience indeed!

$2.00 Hillsborough County day use fee. No water or restrooms at trailhead.

I AGREE THAT MY RSVP TO ATTEND A "SUNCOAST OUTDOORS " SPONSORED EVENT SERVES AS MY SIGNATURE AND EXPRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING AND UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF FULL PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ALL ASSOCIATED RISKS.
If you bring a guest who is not currently a member of Suncoast Outdoors, you have assumed such liability for that guest. Your guest is free to join our group and register individually, thereby releasing you from any such liability.
Possible risks from participation include, but are not limited to:
Injury from a trip & fall, venomous snakes, stinging insects, venomous spiders, wildlife encounters, heat stroke, hypothermia, noxious vegetation, weather related injury, insect or airborne transmissible virus and disease, smoke inhalation, wildfire, falling trees.