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Monday, 26 Jun 2017 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 19 Jun 2017 | Views [228]
ROYAL GORGE AND ITS FAMOUS BRIDGE are mainstays of the tourist trade in Colorado. We had seen the bridge only from below as we rafted the Class IV rapids through the Gorge so we were immediately onboard when Tim and Candice invited us on a birding ... Read more >
Monday, 15 May 2017 | Views [202]
LIKE THE BIRDS WE ARE SO FOND OF, now that we’re back from Cameroon, it’s once again time for our migration North. Unlike the birds we have no driving force to mate, nor will food be an issue. We have the luxury of taking it ... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 | Photo Gallery
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Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017 | Views [288]
WE WERE A LITTLE CONCERNED WITH THE VISA PROCESS. Mailing our passports to a foreign embassy was way out of our comfort zone so using a visa service, expense be damned, was the only option. It took two full days to assemble all the documents;... Read more >
Sunday, 26 Mar 2017 | Views [309]
ROD AND LOIS TOLD US ABOUT CIRCLE B BAR RANCH and their photographer friend John Young who likes it so much that he moved down from Massachusetts. Cirlce B gets rave reports from birders and our first visit made believers of us. So we arranged ... Read more >
Thursday, 23 Mar 2017 | Views [338]
I ONCE SMOKED A CIGAR, ONLY ONCE, and I am pretty sure it didn’t come from Ybor City. This historic suburb of Tampa was sucked from a cypress swamp by Vincente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers around 1880. Soon immigrants, ... Read more >
Wednesday, 15 Mar 2017 | Views [280]
FLORIDA HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE VENUE for MLB’s spring training, only in recent years being challenged by Arizona. This is the time when the regulars work themselves into playing shape and talented wannabees vie for a chance to make it to “... Read more >
Thursday, 9 Mar 2017 | Views [180]
LETTUCE LAKE IS HILLSBORO COUNTY’S most popular park with as many as 3500 visitors on a weekend day. And with almost as many birds. But on a weekday morning the place can feel as remote and empty as the Everglades.
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Saturday, 25 Feb 2017 | Views [208]
SPACES IN FLORIDA’S RV PARKS ARE AT a premium in winter. Like migratory birds, many snowbirds return to the same places year after year and reservations are made months in advance. “Location, location, location” takes second-... Read more >
Monday, 13 Feb 2017 | Views [249]
WE HAVE MADE SEVERAL TRIPS to Sanibel Island for birding in “Ding” Darling. But Sanibel is also known for quality and variety of shells found along the beaches and an entire subculture combs the beach at low tide, always hopeful for ... Read more >
Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017 | Views [264]
OUR DAILY BIRDING RECORD for Sanibel is 43 species — 14 of them on one sandbar! But that was in the fall in a year beset by tropical storms. While the numbers aren’t as great this winter, birding at Ding Darling National Wildlife ... Read more >
Friday, 20 Jan 2017 | Views [256]
SHADY ACRES CLAIMS TO BE THE GULF Coast’s friendliest RV Resort. We will have to wait a bit before we can form an opinion. We moved from Naples to Ft. Meyers on Thursday afternoon and left for Rockledge, sans 5th wheel, on Friday ... Read more >
Sunday, 1 Jan 2017 | Views [274]
SPACE AT FLORIDA'S RV PARKS is at a premium in winter with snowbirds reserving a year in advance. We were lucky to book a month at Club Naples on the west coast, a real bargain with everything we could ask for except location. Everyplace ... Read more >
Thursday, 1 Dec 2016 | Views [293]
DESPITE MY BEST INTENTIONS, I have let this journal wither on the vine, as it were. I think it’s a matter of a lack of interest for both writer and reader. Some of my earlier entries received thousands of views, but then again, the ... Read more >
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