Week Ten Day One Trail Adventure: Phifer Flatwoods Preserve.
Phifer Flaywoods Preserve. We tried to find this last week. We found it! There are several trails in this preserve and none of them actually start right here.
Happy girls!
Having fun 😁.
We traveled down the Gainesville Hawthorne Trail to get to this trail head. However we had trouble finding it, and actually went quite a bit past the road we needed to turn on because there was absolutely no signage. On the way back we managed to find it thanks to Rachel!Down the trail we came to some more signage.This is a 1.3 mile loop (although we already hiked almost 2 miles to get here).There were quite a few informational signs along the way.Rachel couldn’t pass by this little climbing tree 😊.Cute little bridge crossing.A lucky feather. We heard that there was an abandoned house somewhere in this preserve and we have not found it yet, but Rachel is quite determined to keep looking. We could use some luck 😉!A heart shaped pond! 💙We finished the trail and we haven’t found the abandoned house…yet.Meanwhile, back on the Gainesville Hawthorne Trail.Very clever girls 🤣. ¿Not sure why these drawings were on the trail, but the girls sure found them irresistible.Beauty along the trail.We enjoyed the butterflies and these seed pods were pretty cool too!Thanks to Lizzy we found the abandoned house!!We did some exploring 🕵️♀️👁️🗨️👁️.Rachel was super happy, she said “It was the creepiest, coolest thing she has ever done!” Lizzy was less thrilled with the experience.
