USA | Thursday, 23 Mar 2017 | Views [357]
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 >
USA | Wednesday, 15 Mar 2017 | Views [304]
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 >
USA | Thursday, 9 Mar 2017 | Views [199]
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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USA | Saturday, 25 Feb 2017 | Views [224]
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 >
USA | Monday, 13 Feb 2017 | Views [270]
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 >
USA | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017 | Views [289]
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 >
USA | Friday, 20 Jan 2017 | Views [275]
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 >
USA | Sunday, 1 Jan 2017 | Views [301]
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 >
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS | Monday, 12 Dec 2016 | Views [333]
NOT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY, we managed to coordinate (a) insurance covered RV repairs, (b) warranteed maintenance on the truck with (c) a Caribbean cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, saving us RV storage fees and long-term parking. Sometimes things ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 1 Dec 2016 | Views [313]
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 >
USA | Monday, 7 Nov 2016 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016 | Views [432]
WE ARRIVED AT SAVEGRE LODGE WELL AFTER dark, due in part to the long drive over the 10,000 foot high Cerro de las Muertes, aka Mountain of the Dead. We stopped several times on the steep descent to the lodge to listen for nightjars and bare-shank ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016 | Views [432]
WHAT ENSENADA, A ONE-NIGHT STAND, on the Gulf of Nicoya, lacked in amenities (hot water) it made up for with owls. We saw both the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl and the Tropical Screech Owl up close and personal right outside our door. Otherwise ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Friday, 21 Oct 2016 | Views [1504]
WE SPENT OUR LAST MORNING AT ARENAL in the spectacular gardens amidst sparking hummingbirds and inquisitive coatis. But the highlight was a visit from the resident margay. For birders we were unusually attracted to this beautiful cat, certainly ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2016 | Views [338]
THINGS AT ARENAL BEGAN WITH A BANG — and not from the volcano. It was actively erupting when we were last here but it has been silent for several years. Today it was a bang of birds. As we gathered (5:30 AM) on the deck a great ... Read more >
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