We don’t know what time it is! The clock keeps changing on us. My phone says one thing, my watch the other. I would trust my phone, but when there is no internet, it doesn’t update. We are both so confused.

Today as we were leaving the campground, I got talking to a local. She told us about another place which was good for spotting alligators, so off we went, alligator spotting.

I got some good photos of this one, which was lurking near the free campground there, apparently hoping to be fed. He started swimming towards us. I think he was attracted to the fuzzy microphone on the GoPro, so I asked Mike to put it in the bag. As soon as he did this, the alligator started swimming away. It’s pretty cool to be able to see them though, in the wild. No need to pay to go to an alligator farm now!

After the alligator spotting, I spotted a big turtle. That made my day as well. 

Then, the rest of the day was spent driving. I was navigating to Lake Talquin State Park in Florida, just west of Tallahassee. But when we got there, there was no visitor centre or camping. I double check where I had navigated to and realised my mistake. I had navigated to the Talquin state park instead of the Talquin state forest. Geez, I assumed they’d be the same thing. It was a 30 minute backtrack to the camping, which I didn’t want to do. 

So we continued on towards the coast. Mike find a free camp down a rutted dirt track, but I didn’t like the look of it, surrounded by trees, and nobody else about. 

It had gone 7pm by this time and the sun goes dow a lot earlier in Florida. About 30 minutes later we stumbled upon a really nice campground overlooking a lake. It’s absolutely beautiful, and only $20 a night. We may stay here a few days as it’s a long weekend here, and everything along the coast will likely be booked out.

Even though there are alligators here, people are still swimming. A family were just here and they were trying to talk their daughter into going in the water, but she was scared of alligators. Can’t blame her. We might try our inflatable kayak out tomorrow.