Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 6 “Trip and Fall”

                             

Today is my 36th birthday so hopefully all of the forest animals will offer to carry my packs for the day!
I climb out of my tent to check the stick at the waters edge to see the water had dropped over two feet, what a difference that would have made yesterday. The river was rushing [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 5 “Water Slogging”

                             

The packs feel much better today after a few alterations and a few less pounds. As I walk through the woods taking in the beauty I wonder what lay ahead what condition the trail is in after the rain. The terrain was quickly changing from higher grassy areas to “Green Tunnels”. We kept passing small [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 3 and 4 “Rain”

                             

I laid in my tent awake waiting for a hint of morning light wondering about the weather and Hurricane Ida. I was hoping I would be able to make it to the next camp before the rain came.
When I got up Greg (my neighbor) was already packing his campsite up. Greg told me the storm [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day Two Hurricane Lake

                             

Day Two November 8th, 2009 Hurricane Lake
It was a long night, Diego got upset a few times about something outside, his low rumbling growl growing to a snarl and then he let out a few nasty barks. Whats out there? Then a crash in the bushes within 100ft, it sounded big. I listened closely for [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day One “Torture”

                             

My Brother, Nick and my nephew Ian drove me the two and a half hour drive from his house in Alabama to the trail head at the Alabama-Florida state line, after navigating our way around a washed out road we were on a single lane red clay forest road in his white (now two-tone with [...]

Thru-Hiking The Florida Trail

                             

I have been struggling with the inevitable looming lay-off and how to go about dealing with it. Do I do the so called “responsible thing” and look for a “job” ? Do I do the “responsible thing” to myself and pursue my passion for Photography and exploring Florida?  I’ve decided to go for broke spend [...]

Interview with Rich Leighton Florida Nature Photography

                             

While I was at Florida Caverns State Park I got the privilege of hiking and talking to @RichLeighton (follow him on twitter) a Florida Nature Photographer I met on Twitter. He has two websites I encourage you to visit and explore Leighton Photography and Imaging and Florida Nature Photography. Rich is a very down to [...]

The Man With Two Rods

                             

SURF FISHING FOR THE ELUSIVE
He’s known from Seminole Point to Bathtub Reef simply as “the guy with two rods,” so dubbed for the spare rig he routinely totes in a make-shift waist harness along the beach.  His real name is O. J. “Bud” Pettingill and over the past 25 years, he’s caught and released more [...]

An Introduction

                             

My name is Marcus Adkins, as a Photographer I am always looking for interesting places in Florida to explore and to photograph. My weekend getaways have brought me all over this beautiful state. I have seen Sea-turtles nesting on the beach, rock formations that the waves crash into and blast the salty Atlantic Ocean waves fifty feet in the [...]