We sure are getting our tour of the East Coast this year. O & A, the company John now works for, is keeping him busy. For the next month we will be in sunny Florida. I’m not sure about the sunny part. It seems to rain at least everyday, well, thunderstorms anyway. We got lucky and were given a site right next to the lake.
We have a great view of the lake out the front window.
The sunrises are particularly pretty with the reflection off of the water and through the palm trees.
The sunsets aren’t too shabby either.
The grounds are beautiful. The temperature and humidity are about the same as up home in Pennsylvania except it is about twenty degrees hotter and twice as humid. But the tropical plants love it here.
John likes the bamboo garden.
There is this really odd looking pine tree in the park. Just this one, no others like it. After some research I’ve found out that this is a Norfolk Island Pine. You know those little pine trees they sell at Christmas time that have the feathery soft needles and they put little decorations on them? Well, when they grow up, this is what they look like. Who knew! I’ve had those little pine trees and after Christmas threw them away. Guess I should have been planting them. Though I don’t think they would have survived well in Pennsylvania.
The lake has plenty of ducks and white egrets and the occasional blue herring. The white ibis is my favorite though. The super long pinkish-orange beak and legs make it look quite clownish. They are fun to watch.
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I’m not the only one who gets to do a bit of bird watching during the day. Apparently, there are sandhill cranes at the flight center where John is working. They like to look in the windows and people watch as much as the people enjoy looking out the windows to bird watch.
There is some wildlife we could do without. Being this close to the lake means we are a perfect landing spot for the mayfly hatches that come off the lake about once a week. On the upside, the hatch does draw a numerous amount of birds that spend their days picking off all the little bugs.
Once John is done working, we will have a few days to do some site-seeing and time to go visit our friends John and Sharon at their place in Sebring.
