Updated Monday, 12-17-12

Ok, we're settled in have the boat in the water and took it out for our first jaunt today. We still have to figure the navigation system out which means reading more manuals! Plus our computer crashed and the new one just came today so that will be more learning "stuff."

Friends Pat & George Sprouse came and visited for several days. We got to see plenty of Key Deer and have No Name Pub Pizza, sunset at Key West, manatees swimming by at Geiger Key, Fat Albert Blimp--all the usual stuff, tho the manatees were a treat. We never did find an Iguana for Pat tho!

November 29th to December 1

Ok, I've been behind on this blog as we are now situated in our rental in the Keys.  The rooster in the tree is the parking lot at the grocery store.  They were crowing away.

 

Again, the pic's won't load in the order I submit them.

 

The Everglades was awesome as ever, but we didn't see the big migrations like last year.  We didn't do much but take some walks and saw more vultures this trip than we can ever remember.  Maybe that's a bad omen at Homer's age. (He told me to say that.) 

 

Saw a dead gator that was hit by a truck (we were told).  He was sunning himself on the warm pavement and that was his demise.   Boy those vultures were all lined up. 

 

Also found the skeleton of one on our walk at the Eco Pond.  Guess it wasn't too eco-friendly for him.

 

Here's a link to Shutterfly of pictures of the trip that Homer's taken so far: 

 

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=5e50d48ddbde0d4c&sid=8AbuGThkzZtlE1o

 

Click on album and then slideshow for quicker viewing if you're interested. 

 

Will be updating this blog maybe once a week or less.  We're on the run a lot lately.

 

Everglades, Wednesday 11-28 Another Mountain Pass Conquered!

Had Homer turn around so I could
take this elevation shot (no nosebleeds here). At this point there was no water or swamp to be seen (it all looked like prairie) as we were on a narrow 2 lane road into the park.

Sooooo, I jump out of the car and I'm maybe 5-6 feet from this gator in a drainage culvert with his/her nose in it. I jumped regardless, even tho it was no threat. Who would of thought out in the middle of nowhere!

We checked into camp around one and Verizon has no cell tower out here. There's a pay phone if I care.