Enchanted Forest

Out of focus but large resident spider at the Enchanted Forest

                              
                          Before you sign in at the Enchanted Forest County Park in Titusville,Florida, you are greeted by the resident spider in the middle of his web at the entrance.  You missed the resident gopher tortoise who hides in a drainage pipe in the parking lot.  Sometimes when you leave, he'll even be under your car to get a little shade.  next you;ll see me sitting by the Butterfly Garden in their resident rocking chair.  Inside the large building, there are exhibits about nature and a gift shop.  The Tortoise Loop Trail,Biodiversity Trail and Hammock Trail among others provide a walk the forest with its hanging vines, Sawtooth Palmettos and Bent Oaks.  Returning to the visitors center, you are in full sun on the Scrub Pine Trail.
                            The forest is enchanted with winding walkways through shady trails.  The greenery is dense and refreshing in the hammocks.  Most hammocks have been dug up in Florida to create shopping centers and housing developments.  The Enchanted Forest gives you a window on real Florida.  There are numerous Coquina Rocks in the park.  A canal was dug through the woods early in the Twentieth Cenntury to irrigate orange groves.  But it never worked because the Coquina rock ridges hindered excavation of the canal.