Love your pool, and especially how you re-purpose so many (metal) things in your building projects and plant growing areas. To someone like me from the northwest the birds and critters down there are neat to see. Glad it looks like you may get to keep the camp. Maybe the neighbor if he buys the lake lot will grant you access to the lake...
This is the layout. Right of dashes to sell. Left of dashes to keep with cabin. 1.6 and 2.6 acres respect. 1.6 acre Frontage lot high taxes.
Upper left corner is wind free access 80 feet to lake across Nat Forest land. Nat forest shore runs 8 miles to left, so secluded.
Never use the right frontage, too rough and wavy.
'O' in Ocala is substantial Native man camp. To south and east frontage is massive shell dump along right shore.
NW prevailing wind blew waste smell away, therefore the location of the dump site to the SE from camp.
My cabin is at the '3' in 4.34 and within the south boundary of the camp perimeter at 'O' in Ocala.
Dumb shit me put the out house 15 feet to the NW of the cabin and sure enough I get punished by the smell.
I set the cabin there for the same reason the natives put there camp on a north facing shore, but drainage field worked out best on NW side of cabin.
the east facing shore(to right) gets punished by storms and bugs, bad place for maintenance reasons but killer view.
They cooked in the ground with clay balls and chunks heated by fire.(no rocks here,all sand).
They dig a hole, fill it with shells and heated clay balls, cover it up. Dig after done.
The shell middens are extensive. 20 miles of HWY 19 by my place were underlain by a massive shell mound at Silver Glen Springs just 4 miles south of me back in the 40's.
For many miles there is no water in the forest.
two serious creeks just next to me. Native pottery shards cover 1000 acre areas between the creeks(namely Bill's Branch).
Travel routes were the sand bottom creeks as the scrub is impenetrable lest you found an island(stand of trees/forest).
Foot travel was 'by way of Omaha' and trekked thru forests no matter how awkward the route.
Entering the scrub can be sudden death. Forget you way out and 3 miles later you should have no skin and be near dehydration.
As 3 miles travel in that stuff is like 80 miles in the forest cover.
masters of the scrub kept star charts for each season for direction, to this day Florida trail guides have star charts. Don't loose compass, now GPS.
Forest now has 1 mile grid roads over half the area. People still get gone in the scrub. It is the silent trap on cloudy periods.
But the numerous springs are paradise, and Native populations were highly concentrated at them for thousands of years.
To the left of 'P' in parcel is a spring. It still flows to lake but erosion filled it.
Old timer said it was a 30 foot deep cone with strong flow before erosion from govt forestry operations filled it in.
It is a big buck gator nest every year. Only the biggest gators get to nest up a rare creek inflow into the lake.
The creek looks 2 inches deep but is actually full of suspended peat 5 feet down to sand bottom.
Me and a buddy used to wade up it's 100 yard length(mama's travel route) as daredevils in summer when a nest was being managed by mama gator.
Mama gator very protective, #1 most dangerous gator. Stole many an egg over the years and hatched them out.
Many gator nests placed at leopard frog hatcheries so babies can feed when born.
Getting eggs dangerous biz, get caught when mama returns and she will sure run you down.
Surprising how fast they can run through the woods. Like a freight train.
