Mala Compra Trail

Mala Compra Plantation History – (next trip I’ll get to see the plantation)

In the early 19th century, the plantation was home to Joseph Hernandez, who served as everything from a brigadier general in the U.S. Army to a committee member who helped select Tallahassee as the state capital. The site is part of Bing’s Landing, an eight-acre county park. Today, visitors can walk on an elevated boardwalk around the perimeter of the plantation remains and read interpretive displays that explain the site’s historical and cultural value.

We arrived in Plantation Bay on the 6th of August after a whirlwind drive across country to avoid the Corona virus (the trip was our first on Interstates all the way and in 5 days). We have spent the month unpacking 80 boxes that we shipped from Pasadena, in self quarantine for two weeks and then slowly getting back into the neighborhoods activity. My goal is to start exploring Central Florida one day a week then begin taking multi-day trips moving around the state in the months to come.

Monday I visited an old favorite spot the Betty Steflik Memorial Preserve and its boardwalk thru salt marsh and coastal scrub communities. (https://www.visitflagler.com/listing/betty-steflik-memorial-preserve/270242/)

Then on to a new hike – the Mala Compra Trail. Mala Compra has a hiking trail and mountain bike trail system which I avoided. The trail is a walk thru scrub brush and boardwalks across salt marshes to dunes overlooking the Atlantic. (http://www.flaglercounty.org/document_center/Parks/MALA%20COMPRA%20trail%20brochure%20for%20website.pdf)