So Joe, where are we going today? We're going to Calia Seminoles State Park. Way down past Lake, this is going to be our longest trip. Yeah. A lot of it's wise. A lot of it's wise. Yeah. I should take this most of the day to get there. We're going down to the Everblade. Yeah, we just had a rock in the window and now we have a crack in our windshield. And that's fun. I hit the on-carrier turn of the market. 7,271 acre Calia Seminoles State Park lies partly within the great mangrove swamp of southern Florida. One of the largest mangrove swamps in the world. Well, we got to call your Seminoles State Park and Joe's unhooking the car. The Blue Ox flat toe system really is easy to deal with. It's no harder than putting on a trailer. This is really our tightest camping site we've never had. It's so tight you can put out the on-carrier. Yeah. And the order's leaking. It's a driving 360 miles. We decided to eat indoors. So we're having leftovers. I'm using the oven to heat up our eggplant farm zone. There's the block house built as the first ranger place. In the early 1920s, advertising tycoon Baron Calia purchased nearly a million acres in southwest Florida. In 1923 it became Calia County money talks. These are replicas of Seminoles Indian buildings. It's a canoe over there. A little thing here. This walking bridge built in Michigan was designed to be used over swampy ground. The dug a canal on one side of the road and used a dug up material for road fill to elevate the road. It went 10 feet at a time. This machine is now a national historic mechanical engineering landmark, one of only 264 in the world. The Joe, we're walking on this trail. Anything to say. I would hate to have to cut across country. It's an awful thing. It's really nice here. I love these warm walks. Baron Calia tried to get this area designated as a national park, but that didn't work out. Later he donated the land to Calia County for a park to preserve the royal palms and as a memorial to those that fought in the Seminole Wars. In 1947 the county donated the land to the state of Florida and it became Calia Seminoles State Park. It features vegetation and wildlife typical of Florida's Everglades, although rare elsewhere the park covers one of the three original stands of royal palms in Florida. Coexisting with large areas of mangrove small. We were on this hike in the Calia Seminoles State Park and we just stopped to take a little break on this nice boardwalk and put some water. It's really pretty here. Beautiful day. Nice to be here with Joe. Yeah, it's nice. It's a great boardwalk. Yeah. The only negative thing this park is there's some big roads right next to it, so constant road noise, but that's not too bad. Not too bad. Looking forward to a kayak trip tomorrow hopefully. That should be a lot fun. We're doing bike riding today. We're going to go. Yeah, kayak maybe go to the beach later. What's up behind you? Well, we think that's an alligator trail. And then we just talked to us about it. And definitely some kind of animal. Some has been slithering through there. Maybe to the beach side, Joe standing out there with the water. He was quite a little height getting over here. Hey buddy. Okay, let's go to the beach. Hey Joe. Thanks for walking over here with me. Different views from the side. Hey, good to watch you build the beach over there. Nice to be here. It's all gonna be a little bit of a mess being done. This is my first time using our ninja juicer. And I'm excited to see how this turns out. I'm making this a little smoothie with pineapples, bananas, and half an apple. And I'm gonna add a little bit of Joe's moonshine to it. For our action cocktail. Okay, have it all set up. And speed the top on. Put it on to the ninja. And let's see what happens. Well, we came out early. We're gonna find the drone. But he just got a notification that we're too close to him. I'm gonna go to the beach. We can't do that. Well, we think we found the place where we can fly the drone. This area was one of the last refuges of the Seminole Indians as they were hunted down during the three Seminole Indian Wars against the US Army. By far the largest killer of soldiers was the largest killer of soldiers with disease. They could not survive in the deep everglades. The remaining Seminole considered themselves the unconquer tribe. The very first trip she goes out. She grabs the whole of the mandro of first thing and boats were pulling up next to her. And all of a sudden she looks up at her hand and there's a crab crawling down her arm. And God in the lover, she just told me that she was a pro right away. She didn't say a word about it. She said, hey, everybody wanna see a crab on my arm over here. Managing as you can see, don't film. Maybe you can see sharks. You can see a lot of different things, possibly otters. It all depends on every animal's personal tolerance for saltwater. So the way we've been traveling today is the same way that those ancient people would have traveled. However they wouldn't have had these. Plastic, molded canoes and comfy seats and handy-dandy paddles. They would have had to work hard for their canoes. They would have had to first locate a good sized cypheris or a pine tree or some other sort of mostly hardwood type trees. And then they'd have to chop it down and get a good fire going so that they could get the corifit, good and hot and make it easier to curve all that out. And then you've got to dug out for the new. The campground has 105 sites and was basically full while we were there. The sites are mostly in the open. The hours were shaded but very narrow. The bathhouse in our area had a washer and dryer that seemed to be going every time we passed by. The campground was noisy as there are a lot of airboats and small plains during the day. And directly behind the campground is a busy road, although we slept well. The campground is a very busy road, but it's not that easy to walk. The campground is a very busy road, but it's not that easy to walk. The campground is a very busy road, but it's not that easy to walk. What did you think of the campsite? It was the skittiest campsite I've ever seen. We just barely did it there. We couldn't go up that far. It was fun. Yeah, the park was very nice. So we enjoyed the kayaking. There was a lot to do there. I like to go back. There was a lot more down there. And you already know the market was good. Yeah, it's nice down there. It was very pretty. The weather was wonderful. We had a really nice time. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to follow along with RVing with the Maracas adventures. Thanks a lot.