I have stayed just over a week at Francis and Marina's place. Catching up on years of happenings and relaxing after days of motorcycling through the southern states. I was lucky in my choice of friends those 20+ years ago, and they have treated me to a very fine time here.
St Augustine was very pretty, and very packed with tourists. The castle is a federal monument, and thus closed during the federal shut down.
On the way back to their place, we walked round the ruins of an old sugar mill / rum factory.
In the trees around the factory grounds, there was evidence of a recent fire, perhaps 1 year ago and the photos I took of that did not really show the damage and recovery very well. However the picture of the little lizard on the tree came out decent.
So we went on an airboat ride through a Florida cattle ranch. Here are the cattle.
And here is what most of the ranch 'land' looked like.
And some of the wild life found on the pasture.
We had about an hour ride, taking off from The Jolly Gator Fish Camp, and heading south. We really did not see many gators, and the only largish one we saw, we noticed by the splash he left when he dived into the water. The little fellow in the picture above the birds was about 14-18" long. The amount of bird life was beautiful to see, and as I was playing with the settings on the camera not enough of the pictures came through decently.
Next up is Belize.
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