Today SuzieQ and I went to ECO Park in Cape Coral, FL for a walk. We walked a total of 2.25 miles at the park covering all the boardwalk that is there. The weather was cool, 76 degrees, so the walk was a very pleasant one. When it gets warmer in the summer time this walk can be filled with mosquitoes and other bugs, but today it was quite nice.
The park is located behind the Coralwood Shopping Center on Del Prado Blvd. in Cape Coral. Vetran’s Pkwy. runs right beside the park, and when you first enter the park, there is a duplicate of the Iwo Jima statue with the marines raising the flag. There is also commemorative plaque for the marines that died at Chosin in Korea.
As we walked along the path it went from gravel to boardwalk. Once the boardwalk started, we arrived at the first dock that extends out into the Caloosahatchee River. There is a canopy of mangroves overhanging most of the boardwalk. 
The next thing we came to as we walked along the boardwalk was the 4 Mile Cove. In the cove there are three Canoe Shelters, one on either side, and one out toward the mouth of the Cover where it flows into the Caloosahatchee River. Sometimes we see water birds perching in the mangroves around the Cover, but today the mangroves were barren.
From the 4 Mile Cove we walked north and found the Lost Pond. We really couldn’t see much through the mangroves, just a glimmer of the pond.
From there, the last leg of the walk was back to the parking lot and the truck. It was a nice walk for a Sunday afternoon. There are other walks I prefer in our area, but most of them are farther away and more inconvenient to get to. So we settled for ECO Park on this Sunday afternoon. We still got a nice walk in.
