I met a couple of friends after work and we rode our mountain bikes on a loop through the Crystal River State Preserve. Nice dirt roads with a few muddy spots that were easy to go around. The loop is 9 miles but we had decided to take another road and come out on the hard road about 4 miles north of where we parked. It sounded like a good plan but we missed a turn off and ended up at a maintenace workers house deep in the woods. He told us there is 40 milse of roads in the area we were in. He steered us back in the right direction and we came out where he started. Weather was cooling down as we got back to the vehicles. All and all a nice ride.
The only animals we saw was big armidillo. We were probably making to much noise to see any deer.