Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 12, 2024
This short .7-mile archaeological trail was a long boardwalk built through and above a thick jungle-like overgrowth. On one observation deck we could see mosquito lagoon on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the right with Cape Kennedy Space Center to the south. Just off the trail we saw two large turtles. Part of the 35-foot-high mound area is 1.5 million bushels of oyster shells piled up more than a thousand years ago by the Timucua indigenous people. A great location to see sunrises and sunsets.
A mile down the road we hiked the .9-mile Castle Windy Trail that connects the Atlantic Ocean and Apollo Beach to the Mosquito Lagoon. The scenery was very similar to the other trails in this park. We were surrounded by a thick hammock of scrub palm, bushes and oak trees.
