Driving Around Florida Day 8

Our last day of driving got us to a great lunch spot at Lake Eufaula's Lakepoint State Park Marina. It took me a lot longer to get to the edit for the last day than all the other days combined, but that's how it goes sometimes. Here are a few of the shots from that driving day from Valdosta, GA to Lakepoint Marina, AL.

If you are new here, as I mentioned in my previous post in Driving Around Florida Day 1, I’m posting a short recap of some of my favorite images on a trip we took to Florida a few weeks ago. If you would like to see the full length post with all the photos you can click through to our Shanty Travelers blog or follow the link specifically for “Day 8” of our trip at A Week Around Florida: Valdosta to Eufaula Day 8.

From Valdosta to Eufaula

It wasn't really planned out this way, but we ended up finishing our trip at almost the very same place we started. We usually like to go in more of a circular route, but this time the road just took us back to where we started, in Eufaula, AL.

Generally speaking fog is one of my favorite weather events to take out the camera and shoot. Driving, not so much. We started the day in super heavy fog as you can see from the shot below. We were driving on the deserted back country roads so traffic wasn't that big of a deal, but visibility of animals was. We had no altercations with wandering deer and the fog lifted mid-morning.

Once we reached Eufaula we pretty much felt like we were home so we took the time to stop at the Marina to eat lunch in the massive and empty parking lot. The good thing about traveling during this time of year is how empty all the parks are, and the bad part of course is the cold.

Everything changes when it's cold. Living in the southeast, I know cold is relative to what you're use to and me calling it "cold" is relative, but cold is cold to us. People up north would find the winters down here pleasant. But anything below about 60°F and less than 50% humidity down here is pretty much unacceptable in the life sustaining category.

Somehow, in the winter, I tend to edit differently than I do in the summer. The white balance is always doing weird things with the sun. It's not Alaska weird, but with the sun so far over in the southern sky, and always lower on the horizon than what seems normal, I always find these teal-blue-greens in my edits. I do like the cool tones to reflect the cool air, so there are a lot less reds, orange, pinks, and a lot more blues, greens, and what I consider the cold colors. Shooting literally at mid-day doesn't help warm things up either.

The marina on this day was cold and dry. It always amazes me how the air can be so dry when surrounded by so much water. But today, no moisture, no clouds, just clear, still, and cold. After lunch we walked through all the boat docks to check out some of the houseboats stored here over the winter. There are some real creative builds floating on these docks. We put more photos of those on our travel post if you are interested.

A Week in Florida Series

This has been a series of travel posts originating from our travel site, Shanty Travelers. As I mentioned above, to see the full length post with all the photos you can click through to our Shanty Travelers blog or follow the link specifically for “Day 8” of our trip at A Week Around Florida: Valdosta to Eufaula Day 8.

This was the last post in this series, I hope you enjoyed following along with us. We have moved a lot of content over to our travel blog so if you want an email when we post over there we would love for you to subscribe to our travel blog it's free and we only send updates with new posts.

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