Our third Sunday here in Florida. We went back to the church we had been to the first week: First Baptist Church of Groveland. Continuing in their series in Acts, we read through Acts 27 and part of Acts 28, which is the account of Paul’s shipwreck on the island of Malta. A great illustration of God’s providence. God provided for Paul and everyone on that ship, even though the ship’s crew knew the dangers and sailed far too late in the season. God carried out His plan to place Paul in front of Ceasar.
We made lunch in a nearby park, and then drove to the Bay Lake Trailhead on the Van Fleet bike trail. This is a 29-mile rail-to-trail that runs through some of the most rural and undeveloped land in all of Florida. If you like flat, paved, and straight, this is your trail. I think there’s one curve in the whole 29 miles.
We rode the center section of the trail, starting at Bay Lake and going a few miles past the Green Pond Trailhead, 30 miles in all, round-trip. This section of the trail is reportedly the most rural, and indeed the only thing you see is swamp land. The 10-mile section between these two trailheads crosses one dirt road.
We did get rained on for a short time, enough to get us a little wet, but the rest of the trip was dry and rather hot when the sun came out. But it was an enjoyable ride, a great activity on a Sunday afternoon.
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