My book tour this fall included a Tuesday evening presentation to a Florida Native Plant Society Chapter in Wakulla County, which is south of Tallahassee and about half way to the the end of Florida's Panhandle. There were no other engagements on either side of it and there were several stateparks we had not been to, so Dean & I headed out early on Monday for the 3-hour drive.

 
The sunrise was in our rearview mirror.

We'd made reservations for 2 nights at this park-the night before my presentation and the night of the presentation.

 
A white squirrel was interesting in that it was not albino since there was a dark stripe down its back and it had dark eyes.

One of the first items of business was to walk from our campsite to the river. We determined that it was close enough that we could carry our kayaks to the river.

 
We carry them side by side. 

The pigweed was bright red!

Just beautiful! After a couple of hours on the river we headed in for some lunch.

 
After lunch we walked along some trails in the park. The old canoe showerstalls were inventive.

 
There was a controlled burn of much of the park in June, so it was filled with wildflowers and butterflies.

After dinner, we sat on the steps at the river's edge to soak up the ambiance.

The next morning we were on the river before sunrise. We couldn't have asked for a better one.
By the way, Dean used his underwater camera gear for all the river shots, just in case.

After a couple of hours, we came in for breakfast.

Our campsite had good shade most of the day thanks to a spreading live oak.

 
A selfie in the van's back window. There were several deer that wandered through the campground.

 
We walked on a different set of paths later in the morning. Some of the longleaf pines still bear the scars from the terpentine industry.

 
I was happy to finally see a zebra swalowtail in person. These lovely butterflies depend upon
pawpaw leaves for their larval food.

This gulf fritillary is savoring the Liatris

Godfrey's gayfeather (Liatris provincialis), whose whole global range is maybe 150 sq miles in the 2 counties, is one of the first to grow after a fire.

This weird one-sided grass is called toothache grass (Ctenium aromaticum).