Thursday, March 28, 2013

Hummingbirds and Woodpeckers





It's spring here in Florida!!  The bottle brush tree is full of  hummingbirds!! and the Woodpecker's are making their condo for the kids!!

Friday, March 1, 2013

Boat ride

There's an alligator on that log.
Last week we went on a boat ride with some friends from the park.   To the Suwannee River we went.  It was cool but, beautiful day. We headed to Manatee springs and right away we saw over a dozen manatees at the enterance to the springs.  We aren't able to ride down to the springs, so we parked the boat and walked down, to the pretty blue aqua water.  We saw some scuba divers, but weren't able to get them to show up in the pictures.
group of manatees

Manatee coming to say HI

Coming closer

Hello (the engine is off)

View from Suwannee river

Water lillies on Suwannee river
 We headed down stream and saw a couple of small alligators, lots of birds and turtles.  The turtles are interesting, they will be lined up sunning themselves on a log, but when we went by them slowly, they would all slide into river one by one. Plop, plop, plop. 
It was a fun day and the Manatee's were the highlight. So Cool!!!!!-M
Manatee springs

Toby sleeping in the back seat.