Cold morning walk in Florida!

This morning the temperatures were in the 30's with wind chills in the 20's but that doesn't stop this old lady from walking. Leigh walked with me today so he got some good shots of me feeding the gullies. We first walk the marsh, then today being Friday we walked past the farmers market. We even passed up the kettle corn stand my favorite and the farmers market. Then on to the beach and home for a hot cup ot tea. We only did 2 miles today.

Feeding the sea gullies

Today's walk was cold and windy for Florida, But leigh walked with me this time so you can see me feeding the gulies not just the gullies. Today was a good day's walk and we passed the farmer's markey and walked the marsh.

Morning Walk

After being sick with a cold or whatever it was Leigh and I are finally feeling somewhat better.

We still have the cough and the drainage but we are starting to get out some. We have been missing our walks as we just didn't feel up to it. So today, as Leigh left for work i went with him and continued on for my walk through the marsh and to the beach. I didn't do the six miles but at least I have started again.

Today I saw a blue herring and some egrets, but no whooping cranes. I wonder if they moved on or if they were just hidden today. I then went to the beach and feed the sea guiles and birds some bread I love to watch them when you feed them.

So now hopefully I will have more to write about as we start going out again. We have gone daily to feed Leigh's dad and he had a couple real bad days and stayed in bed but he was up yesterday and seem to be better. Well that is all the news for now.

Boat ride on the St John

After meeting Marilyn and Jim they took us to their boat and gave us a ride on the St John and that is how we ended our wonderful day spent with friends on the St john river. We a wonderful relaxing day we had and thank you Joan and Paul for planning this day for us.

This is blogged all wrong. I started it as a day on the st John so you may want to start there and then read til here. I put in on as we did it but as you can see it starts at the end of our day. silly me. But needless to say it was just a wonderful day in the neighborhood. gee, it so nice being in Florida in the winter. I could be huddled up close to the stove keeping warm. Life is good.

Lunch at pubside on the St John

We enjoyed a nice lunch with a cowboy singing country music entertaining us as we ate and danced. It was just a relaxing afternoon with our good friends showing us a good time Florida style. Paul and Joan have been so wonderful to us taking us under their wing. They have really opened up door for us in the workamping world and have been true friends we will cherish always. After our lunch they introduced us to their friends Jim and Maryiln.

Blue Spring

Blue Spring is a first magnitude spring that discharges 104 million gallons of water daily into the St john river. Blue spring is the home for at least 15 threatened or endangered plants and animals.

Walking along see all the fish and manatees plants and birds was wonderful. It was just such a great day and we enjoyed blue springs greatly.

A Day on the ST John River

We started our day on the St john river by driving to Orange City to the home of our friends Paul and Joan. They had planned a day for us on the St john River, starting at Blue Spring State Park, winter home of around 200 manatees. A fun fact about the ST John river is that is is a north flowing river. There are only two in the world. Do you know what is the other north flowing River is???? If you do leave a comment.

We found the manatees laying on the sunny side of the blue spring inlet. It was awesome to see these gentle creatures. The weather was wonderful and this was the beginning of a wonderful day on the St John.