Got up early with the alarm, but it was still after 10:00 before we managed to hit the road. We only have about 3.5 hours of actual travel time, but several stops along the way will make our arrival later. Our first stop was the Dundee Feed Store, where we picked up horse feed and alfalfa, some of the most tightly packed alfalfa I've ever seen, nice and green. Next stop was Walmart just north of Lakeland for supplies, then finally arriving at Colt Creek State Park around 4:00. We paid our $10/night (5 per person) and made our way back to the horse campground, a beautiful spot with lots of tall pine trees, surrounded by lots of old Florida scrub palms. There were numerous water spigots around, a porta-potty, hitching rails, plenty of good trees for high lining and grass for portable corrals. There were three other campers here, three women who were camping together, whom Hubby and I spoke to briefly before we got set up. Later, when they came back from a short afternoon ride, they came by to tell us that they had been swarmed by horseflies and deerflies on the trail, and they hoped it was only a fluke, or the time of day, because if they were always like that, it wasn't going to be much fun for the next few days! We managed to get the horses on a highline and the satellite dish up, though we could only lock onto one satellite, but that was fine. We settled in for the evening, enjoying a beer in our loungers for awhile before being chased in by the bugs.
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