Shired Island Park will be closed to the public May 3rd-4th-5th 2013.
This closure is necessary to support the
Dixie Airboat Adventures/Handicap Fishing Tournament.
Park will reopen May 6, 2013
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Horseshoe Beach
Horseshoe Beach is an isolated, laid back, friendly fishing village located on the Gulf of Mexico west of Gainesville. Our city limits sign reads – Welcome to “Florida’s Last Frontier”. We are 20 miles to the closest major highway.
The Horseshoe Beach area was settled in the early 1800s. The land was owned by lumber interests until 1935, when C.C. Douglas and Burton Butler purchased the land for $324, since the lumber company was pressuring the residents to “move on”. The Butler/Douglas union made it possible for the settlers to own their occupied property. They offered each resident the lot he was living on for $10. The town was incorporated in 1963. The town now has a restaurant, full-service marina, ice cream shop, two churches, a number of comfortable rental cabins, a waterfront park, and a general store.
Originally posted 2012-09-21 22:47:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
April 3, 2013
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Geocaching
Are you a real-world outdoor treasure hunter?
Our Zips codes are
- Old Town 32680
- Cross City 32628
- Horseshoe Beach 32648
- Suwannee 32692
- Jena 32359
New to goecaching?
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world.
A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.
Geocaches are currently placed in over 200 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica, and the International Space Station. After more than 12 years of activity there are over 1.8 million active geocaches published on various websites. There are over 5 million geocachers worldwide.
Try this website to find geocaches in your area geocaching.com
Originally posted 2012-09-23 23:13:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
April 3, 2013
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Dive Historic Wreck in the Suwannee
City of Hawkinsville Preserve – Suwannee River, Florida
If you spend any time at all roaming along Florida’s famed Suwannee River, it does not take long to begin hearing stories of the City of Hawkinsville. The boat’s wreck lies in the middle of the river just above the U.S. 90 Bridge in Dixie County.
Some say the City of Hawkinsville was a Union gunboat that invaded the Suwannee River only to be sunk by Confederate fire from old Fort Fanning at Fanning Springs. Other say that she was a Confederate blockade runner, destroyed by her own captain to keep her from being captured by the U.S. Navy.
The latter story appears to confuse the boat with another wreck downstream, but the gunboat tale is nothing more than legend.
In fact, the City of Hawkinsville was a paddlewheel steamboat abandoned by her captain in 1922 during the dying days of the riverboat era in Florida. Built in 1886, the 141- foot long, 30-foot wide sternwheeler had served a remarkably long career (38 years) for a steamboat. Few could boast of service anywhere near that long and the earliest ones to ply Florida’s rivers and creeks rarely lasted longer than four or five years.
Originally posted 2012-09-23 11:18:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Log Landing WMA
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Covering 5,048 acres Log Landing WMA is available for deer, hog, turkey, and small game hunting. Log Landing is part of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) program.
For more information about WMAs, contact the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at 386.758.0525 to request its annual hunting handbook or stop by your local tax collector’s office to pick up a copy.
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Originally posted 2012-09-23 22:32:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Sandfly Creek Paddle
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Originally posted 2012-09-24 10:56:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Lock Creek Paddling Trail
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April 3, 2013
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Suwannee
Secluded at the heart of the beautiful and wild Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, this unique small community overlooks the river, salt and fresh water creeks and man-made canals. Experience nature at its untouched best while enjoying our waterfront accommodation, great seafood or down-home restaurants, marinas and expert fishing guides.
An unparalleled area of diverse natural environments, the wild and scenic estuary forms a natural blending zone for its marine and freshwater habitats and a division between the temperate and neo-tropical regions of the Gulf coast. The river mouth opens to a scenic vista of tidal marshes dotted with small coastal islands, an area of shallow waters or “flats” and oyster bars teaming with fish. Natural salt marches and tidal flats attract thousands of shorebirds while acting as a nursery for fish, shrimp and shellfish.
One of the largest undeveloped delta-estuarine systems in the United States, the area is protected by the 52,935-acre Lower Suwannee Wildlife Refuge. The refuge was established in 1979 and covers both sides of the Suwannee River upriver for almost fifteen miles and 26 miles of Gulf habitat. The overall goal of the refuge is to provide optimum conditions to manage and protect the natural heritage of the area, while giving as much public access as possible.
Originally posted 2012-09-21 22:37:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Shired Creek Paddle Trail
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Originally posted 2012-09-22 22:02:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Florida Historical Markers: Old Town
Location:U.S. Highway 19
County: Dixie
City: Old Town
Description: Inhabited by the Upper Creeks, Old Town, often called Suwanee Old Town, was one of the largest Indian villages in northern Florida. In Andrew Jackson’s punitive expedition into Florida in April, 1818, Old Town was captured. Most of the renegade Indians escaped, but Jackson caught Robert Armbister, a British subject, who was tried and executed for aiding the Creeks in border raids into Georgia. This produced tension between the United States and Great Britain.
Originally posted 2012-09-23 20:47:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter