A red leaf popped up, surprising me in a patch of old growth powder puff deer lichen (commonly called deer moss), photographed on a Trail Trekker hike. See a larger version.
Surrounding Deer Lake (a rare coastal dune one), Deer Lake State Park extends north and south of Scenic 30A road. The park has developed the sign, entrance to the parking lot, ramp over the dunes to the beach edge of the Gulf of Mexico, and a short Forest Trail. The mostly undeveloped areas west and northeast of the lake have sometimes overgrown roads, trails or firebreaks laced with creeks that merge seamlessly into Point Washington State Forest.
Deer lichen site 3.5 (see Google map). See Trail Trekkers (April, 2008), Deer Lichen, or Florida travel page.
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