Travel - Deer Lake State Park

These pages center around Deer Lake State Park, Santa Rosa Beach, NW Florida. It has a rare coastal dune lake that opens and closes to the salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Point Washington State Forest borders it on the west northwest. These pages start in 2002 and go on. Each item is listed as to where, when - what, media. The oldest items are last and new items appear at the top of the list. Some photos are stitched together as QuickTime VR (QTVRs or Flash), which are 360-degree panoramas. A QTVR movie is interactive and files are several hundred KB or MB. Note number 9 is not on the map, which is just the southern portion of the park. The larger northern portion is not shown but here are some maps showing the whole park area. Note that any coordinates of the pushpin locations are approximate. Especially, the inoutfall is constantly changing location.

10. 2010, 2011 Advice to a Trasher or Fish Life on the Edge. Lake2LakeNorth.

9. whole park, April 2008 - New leaf in old deer lichen, Trail Trekkers 408 and Access photos. 2009: Spiral labyrinth. 2010: Buddhists in the Woods, Earthballs. 2012: New leaf in old deer lichen 2012

8. lake, March Equinox 2004 - Bridge over the lake QTVR. 2006: Transportation QTVR. Dead Wood Duck photo. Purple Light movie. Culvert, 2010. Standing Meditation, Tree-Wise, 201.

7. beach, August 2003 - Red dawn over outfall image. Gulf, March, 2006 - My Tidal Waves. Gulf, April, 2006 - Emeraldiest photo, Inoutfall, April, 2009 - Fresh Water Meets Sea, video. Edge, March 2010, photo. After Oil. 2012 Spiral and Eclipse

6. dunes, March Equinox 2003 - After the fence QTVR

5. beach, March 2003 - Beach Squeak, Flash sound track or Beach Squeak Walker. December, 2005 - TLM Sending Blessings, Crabs, Flash and images at Blessings Beach, new stairs

4. dunes N, January, 2003 - Dune access QTVR

3. beach path, June Solstice 2002 - Beach access QTVR

2. dunes S, June Solstice 2002 - Dunes access QTVR

1. dunes, March Equinox 2002 - Before the fence QTVR

In 2009 there was a danger that Florida would close this beloved and valuable park for the short term goal of saving about $5,000 annual maintenance. The park remains open with the addition of an honor use fee collection box at the entry to the parking lot. In 2010 news is that the park has minimal expense and is self-supporting. In 2011 the Florida state budget for the environment will be cut down, some parks might be closed or sold, so any way you can befriend this park will help keep it in existence. See Alert for contacts. For context, see the external Florida State Park pages. See the Florida travel page.

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