Ginnie Springs Campground Kayak and Hike, Florida

Date	Distance	Time	Elevation Gain	Average Moving Time	Year to Date Miles
1/7/2024	3.3 miles	1 hour 13 minutes	59'	2.7 mph	14.5 miles

Parking: 

• Ginnie Springs Outdoors, LLC, $25/night to camp in the winter

Map:

• A Slice of Pure Florida | Ginnie Springs Outdoors | High Springs, FL

Directions:

• Unknown

Small portion of the aftermath of the partiers

Cyprus knees

Lots of turtles on our kayak

Kayaking on the river, which is not blue

The springs were very blue

Surprisingly, the only lizard I saw was in the campground shower.

In the morning, the partiers were still sleeping when we got up. Tara and I rented kayaks in the campground. We kayaked down the river and visited some of the springs. It was a cooler day. You kayak as far upstream as you want, and then have an easy downstream kayak on the way back. Sometimes paddling upstream was hard, and it felt like I was kayaking in place. 

After our kayak, we did another hike around the campground. 

All of the weekend partiers cleared out. I highly recommend if you visit this campground, to stay on a weekday rather than a weekend. We decided to find a new campsite anyways. We ended up sleeping in our cars again - and I figured out how to remove the back seat bottom in order to let me lie flat. Nice climate control again. It was a very quiet, blissful night, not having any partiers.