Cocoa Conservation Area - Hiking/GEOCaching/Wandering

The Cocoa Conservation Area is another of those gems located in a residential area. It is pretty easy to get to once you realize you must pass through the community of Cocoa Bay to get to it. The entrance is located at the end of Cocoa Bay road. It is open from 7am to sunset each day with no entrance fee. There is plenty of parking and a nice, covered picnic pavilion. Once you pass through the gate you will enter another old time section of Florida. The main trails are old roads which cut through the conservation area. There are a number of game trails to explore if you so wish. I ventured off on a few, hitting some major briars on some of them. I gave up some blood and still have some thorns embedded in my hands from those adventures. I had two desires, find remnants of an old homestead and get over to see Mud Lake, I didn’t get neither done. I did see some things left from what were most likely old homesteaders, but that was it. If you ever find something cool or find a way to get to Mud Lake, let me know. The only wildlife I did see was one gator in the swamp near the road and some hog activity way back in the woods. There are some very nice GEOCaches in the area, so give them a look. For more information see my website www.tomchoma.com