Halverwege de middag zijn we na het dagelijkse picknicken, met de metro weer richting het hotel gegaan. De voorbereidingen voor onze reis van morgen!! boodschapjes doen voor koek en sopie in de trein en alvast wat voorpret......
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Ocala National Forest
Florida
The word Ocala is thought to be a derivative of a Timucuan Indian term meaning fair land or big hammock. The lush Ocala National Forest lives up to its name: Towering palms, large live oaks, and scrubby sand pines dominate the forest's scrub oak ecosystem. The Ocala's sand pine scrub ecosystem is the world's largest continuous forest of its type. But that's not all. Between the river boundaries of this forest lie central highlands, coastal lowlands, swamps, springs and hundreds of lakes and ponds.
It's the lakes and ponds that make the Ocala exceptional. The forest is riddled with slow-moving rivers and wet"prairies." In the Florida and south Georgia, the word prairie refers to submerged flatlands, not the rolling grasslands of America's midwests. They are sunny, shallow expanses of water, usually ringed by cypress trees and filled water lilies and other with aquatic plants. The wonderful rivers and wetlands make Ocala probably the most famous canoeing destination in Florida outside of the Everglades.
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