FLORIDA ADVENTURE...POST 2

By

Gypsy Rhapsody

Yep, we are still in Florida...

no more flat tires...

no more wrong destinations...

just rollin' down the roll headed for the Everglades...

 Beautiful Traveling Weather...

Ahhhh

We started stopping sooner in the day,

after that first GPS fiasco.

This is Gulf Coast RV Park in Inglise, FL.

Beautiful park...well taken care of...

I did spot 2 more Airstreams around the corner from us.

I think one might have been even older than me. 

Maybe I should use "more vintage" rather than older...sounds better.

Next stop...Venice, FL...

Loved Loved Loved this place.

V and D said that they definitely wanted to come back here.

Can you believe we found a place to park right on the street?

Vannie and Dave wanted to put their toes in the gulf,

so they started walking.  Dave had already found where it was on his phone.

Only a few blocks from where we parked.

When I saw this picture, I said..."What kind of tree is that?"

Vannie knew...many moons ago she and her mom, and

Cousin Janet, and Aunt Ruth went to Hawaii.

Well, seems these trees are all over the place there...Banyon Tree.

Dave said these flowers looked like orchids.

Seems they were growing on a tree...not a bush.

Guess he better Google it.

Oh my goodness, I did get a little jealous.

This beach looks so inviting.

V and D said the water was very chilly, but felt good to the toes.

Just a little selfie while they were relaxing on the beach.

What in the world???

Are they back in Paris???

Nope...as they were walking back from the beach,

they came across a little Parisian bakery with their

favorite food...Pain au Chocolat.

Toes in the Gulf

AND

Pain au Chocolat

They thought they had died and gone to heaven.

Next stop

Oscar Scherer State Park

Osprey, Fl...near Venice

There were no sites with hook-ups when we got there,

so we had to take a primitive site.

That means no electricity, no water, no nothing.

But remember, I do have my own water holding tank

and black tank that holds "the stuff"...if you know what I mean,

so we were good.

V and D even had supper by candle light...such romantics.!!!

The next morning V and D got up early

and headed out on a nature walk.

One of the things they wanted to see was this bird...

Florida Scrub-Jay

Vannie said that the Scrub-Jay only lives in this area of Florida.

Birders love this little bird.

I wish I could tell you Vannie got up close and personal

to this little creature, but not so.  They did see them on their

nature walk, but this picture was taken of a stuffed one on the nature center.

Look at this incredible spider web.

D saw it on their nature walk.

He said there were lots of them around.

Looks like little fairy hammocks to me.

Cute little flower...

V said these little white delights are all over the place in Florida...

roadside stops, nature trails, campsites.

OK...You might to get out your magnifying glass for this one.

Right in the middle of the picture you will see a tree with

a dark triangle in the fork of the branches.

Can you guess what that is?

An Eagle's Nest with a mother eagle sitting on eggs...

The daddy was nearby on another tree.

The ranger had a telescope set up so that all the

nature lovers could see it better. 

Pretty Cool..

Vannie said that according to the ranger, that nest

weighs about 2000 pounds...almost as much as me...

give or take a few thousand pounds.  lol

Getting dark...time for another candlelight dinner.

Such a peaceful place.

Dave is up early the next morning

and heading to the bathhouse.

Ready to hit the road...

on to the Everglades...

See ya on down the Road...

Till next time.

The Everglades will not have cell service or internet...