See the Blogg below, photos first from Myakka to Manatee
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| Manatee Suwanee River |
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| Manatee Cypress Swamp |
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| Manatee Board Walk where the viper Water Moccasin was... |
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| Pat at Rainbow see History Blogg coming |
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| Man-made Water Fall at Rainbow and the head waters below |
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| Can you see me in my "Got Kindness T-shirt" from Connetquot with Toby's Bee Pin gift? |
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| Bird Walk at Myakka-Bald Eagles, etc. |
Pat on the Bird Walk at Myakka River, another one of our favorite places because of Ringling Museums, The Tree Canopy Walk, Nice Biking and the Birding and people who loved to go out and talk to us novices..Florida History and Nature's Beauty. There are only a so many tree canopy walks throughout the world and this is one of them. Pat and I actually walked high each day we were there and I am afraid of heights, but a couple of times I felt I was beyond the sky and actually transcended the fear and found great hope and what I could see of the beyond. One of the most wonderful things of at the canopy walk was the educational plaques and the fact that the school children in Amazonian Peru helped build the canopy walk in Mayakka; they raised money for it. And the Tree Foundation at Myakka honored them all by placing their individual names on the wood floor planks. Yes! It cost about $100,000 to build, but the do research in the trees. Now Myakka has lots of alligators so the one thing we did not do is kayak, but we saw two people foolishly paddle boarding. Near Paynes Prairie is a botanical garden where a man lost his arm because he wasn't wise. Those gators can run faster than horses at short distances and bull gators are notoriously territorial.
We want to be home, but we can't come come unless we winterize the RV and stay in hotels which I hate as much as flying.We will stick it out another week.
The best of the last few weeks has been Rainbow Springs and now Hannah Park because...well you will see the photos from Rainbow and before we leave Hannah Park.
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| Tower at Canopy Tree Walk Myakka |
Manatee Springs was eerie with black water bubbling up and going into the Suwanee River and hundreds and hundreds of buzzards. All over Florida they warn alligators are dangerous, but buzzards cause the most damage. As noted in the photo a big water moccasin greeted us the first day along the board walk. Now all you know I like snakes but poisonous ones are a little too non-loving, not very applealing. Right you can't hold them and show kids how neat snakes are...And the Manatees did not appear as the nuclear reactor down the Gulf was more inviting. The one good thing about Manatee was the BQ pork. And we did get a International Champion dish of clam chowder at Cedar Key and Pat wanted to buy a little house in the community. I told him NO we all ready had a little house on wheels.
Florida is having a strange winter with some places being much colder than usual and others warmer. My high school friend who we saw at Paynes Prarie says they haven't had a frost (Paynes has buffalo on the prairie and wildhorses, but Susan says they are going to remove the wildhorses because they aren't indigenous. I wonder if they are going to remove the Armadillos which became part of the environment due to calamities, circus wrecks, and are Buzzards Indigenous??? Because if Buzzards aren't give me Seagulls and Crows anyday!)
The volunteer ranger... Ronski at the Visitor's Center was really nice, retiring from being an Equine Prof at Univ. of Florida. He helped me id a American Kestrel. See Ben's and Kelsey's websites so you understand his interest. Susan and Rocco, her husband of 43 years, also had horses and have other common interest.
Got to go it is Feb. 14 and tomorrow is Feb. 15, I was a Valentine's baby in a way. Feb. 15 is my official birthday. 63 and still going...Peace And in Fellowship for all the Good Earth's children except maybe buzzards???? I like them in small numbers. Nothing is either black or white...In faith Stefani
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