After crashing early last night, we found ourselves up and about around 6am so down to the fitness room and road bikes for 30 minutes. After that, we took advantage of the free breakfast at the hotel. We picked up ou rental car around 10am and headed off to Butterfly World. The azaelas are starting to bloom in the area, so the entranceway was really looking nice. One thing we hadn't anticipated was the bus loads of school children. Not that they were bad or anything, just a lot of them. We didn't see many new butterflies that we hadn't seen before so we primarily concentrated on the many variety of birds there. One of my favorites is the parrot above.
After spending a couple of hours there, we were off for Flamingo Gardens. They are a non-profit organization that takes in injured animals and raises them if they cannot be returned to the wild. While there certainly are flamingo's there, they also have several species fo hawks, a pair of bald eagles, a pair of golden eagles, several owls, and numerous other birds and creatures found around southern Florida.
Tomorrow is our all day eco-tour to the Everglades, and we have to be at the pickup point by 7:30am. It should be a very interesting day and we are really looking forward to it.
That's about it for now so until timorrow, Cheers!
Hey Bill,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to let you know that I was tracking you. I need plenty of pics from Turkey!!!! Wish you were here or should I say wish I was there!!!!
Gerald