Northern Florida -
Walks, Parks and Birds of St
Johns River Valley (January - April)
Scheduled trips: Please contact us to schedule a custom trip!
Trip Cost: $1,300
with
$300 single supplement.
- Come savor the hidden nature "gems" of Northeast Florida's St Johns River Valley. This region makes for a memorable springtime outing with its surprisingly wild, diverse, and bird-filled parklands near St Augustine, close by the Atlantic Ocean, and near Palatka, on the great river, which enthralls today's walkers as much as it impressed John Muir and William Bartram - tramping a then-unspoiled peninsula.
- Unlike them, happily, we will sleep well, based the four nights in comfortable, roomy, private-bath lodging.
- We've timed this trip to take in both the prodigious songbird activity on the trails of the vast Guana River Park, as well as the coastal area's birds, and all creatures great and small, at path-abundant parks like Washington Oaks and Anastasia.
- The also falls during the flowering season - including magnificent azalea - and before the biting insect season starts in earnest. The terrain and walking is easy, while the landscapes are as varied as they are wondrous: coastal dune and dwarf-oak forest, hammock-type woods, beaches (including one with rare coquina "rock"), and riverside cypress swamp (via boardwalk).
- Trip starts at a Palatka-area park (our van from airport hotels at 8am); ending 10am on
March 28 (our van to airport by noon). All-inclusive price, excludes airfare and optional gratuity.
Airport: Jacksonville.