Spider

Shot this spider today in Key Largo, I think he's eating a moth.

New trail coming soon in Florida

You see a dirt road with a mud hole...I see a playground.

While browsing the Florida Forrest Service website, I found This:
floridaforestservice.com

This is far from me, but I would still like to go there someday...

Florida Land Rover Club Spring Rallye

For whatever reason, Coppermine  will not let me upload to the FLRC site. Perhaps it because they are in the middle of re-doing the page?

At any rate, I'll go ahead and post the pictures here .

 

The State Forrest Service was doing some controlled burning up in Citrus while we  were there,

so the whole area smelled like one big campfire.

 

Thanks Cosmo!!!

Great Corkscrew Swamp

    The Land Rover sits in the carport awaiting some much needed maintenance and repairs that I will detail later in a separate post. Ever since the starter incident, I have put it aside for some TLC and am driving a lesser vehicle for now.
    Last week's visit to the  Great Corkscrew Swamp and the Audubon sanctuary was relaxing and we did get to take a few nice pictures. The weather cooperated with our efforts although it was a bit cooler than we had hoped.

The boardwalk at the sanctuary.

Watching me like a Hawk.

Strangler Fig has a grip on this Cypress tree.

The Ibis and the Turtle

Thistle, Look but don't touch.

Loop Road Febuary 2013

We are going to try to visit Loop Road each month and capture the changes as the seasons turn.

We had a great day out on the loop, even though one time when we shut the Rover off to take pictures, it would not crank over. Okay, so we're an hour from any pavement, and no cell service, I reached into the tool bag and grabbed a hammer and gave the starter a whack while Dennise turned the key. 

Having years of experience with Land Rovers I have never known this trick to work.

 Not once.

 Ever.

Today was the one day it did. Very thankful.

Like I said it, was a great day.

 The Rover has started every time we've tried it since, but I'm not taking any chances. We are getting the starter fixed before we got out in the woods again.

 

Anhinga Trail Photos

Okay, so we got a new camera for Christmas so we went to try it out..

Young Anhinga