Hammock camping on the Econlockhatchee River in Florida

Hammock camping on the Econlockhatchee River in Florida

If you’re celebrating National Hammock Day today, we envy you and your comfortable ways, just as we envy this hammock camper along the banks of the Econlockhatchee River in Florida. The upper course of the Econlockhatchee is just outside Orlando, where it flows through a portion called the Econlockhatchee River Swamp. As it pushes east, the river winds through the Little Big Econ State Forest, where kayakers may take a break from the river’s nearly 55-mile path to come ashore and camp in hammock tents like the one seen in this photo. For those folks, every day is hammock day.