Houston, We Have Manatee!

 

On Sunday, two guys that Herb used to work with at Wisconsin Electric, and their wives, were traveling through from Key West and heading to the Ft. Lauderdale area.  We met them for lunch at the same Mexican restaurant we ate at on Saturday.  We had an additional guest, a snowy egret.  He sat right behind Herb, about 10 inches, and stayed there for 10 minutes.  I have a video but I tried 6 times and couldn't get it on the blog.

Didn't do a whole lot on Monday.  Walked to the grocery store and got stew meat for the Wednesday pot luck.  Little did we know that it was going to be canceled.  Oh well now I'll make it and freeze the extra.  That is if there is any.  We'll have to see what Herb does with it tonight!

On Tuesday we took a drive down the Keys checking for a campground for next year.  We decided it was probably worth the extra money to be assured of warm weather and I love being by the ocean.  Herb talked about going to Texas next year cause it was so-o-oooo much cheaper.  Then it snowed along the Gulf coast ;-)  We visited five campgrounds.  One way too small and they said good luck at getting in in February.  The whole campground was big gravel and wouldn't have been too pleasant  for walking.  One didn't have a pool.  Others no trees.  Of course it was the last one we stopped at that we both fell in love with.  It's on the Gulf side with lots of trees, a large pool, paved roads, a small bar and grill and even a motel.  So if you want to visit us in the Keys next year you'll have a place to stay!  Book early!  Plus the place was pretty big.  I think it has hundreds of sites.  The people there were very friendly.  We talked to a couple for over an hour.  Everywhere we walked people either waved at us or spoke to us.  Of course Max is a great conversation starter.
The name is Fiesta Key RV Resort and Campgrounds at http://www.fiestakeyrvresort.com/.

 

 

I've made our first reservation for next year!  We'll be staying at a Florida State campgrounds right on the Atlantic Ocean.  I mean RIGHT on the ocean.  The sites are up above the beach.  I really lucked out on this.  Most of the state parks here are next to impossible to get into this time of year.  It's the Gamble Rogers Memorial Park in Flagler Beach.  This picture is from their website.

 

You can only stay at the state campgrounds for 14 days so I have the last two weeks of January taking us thru the 31st.  I'm trying to book another one down here in the Keys.  It's the Bahai Honda State Park.  But you can't book until 11 months prior to your reservation.  So I will have to wait until Feb 28th at midnight and see what I can do.  This is the same type of camping, right on the ocean so it will be difficult at best to get a reservation.  But I'm gonna try!

 

Nuf of dat.  I told you I've been trying to get pictures or a video of the manatees.  I really didn't think this was going to happen.  Whenever they swim thru the channel here they don't come up long enough to get the shot.  That is until last night.  We went down to the end of the road to watch the sunset.  A manatee swam thru and there was a dolphin in the little bay but they were so fast I didn't have a prayer of getting them.  Watch the videos for the rest.

 

 

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a dolphin?

We Have Manatee!!!!!!!

Well, only a few days left at this place.  Looking forward to getting to the new one at Ft. Meyers Beach.  Sure hope the pool is working there!  It will take a walk or a drive though to get to see the gulf but shopping will be better!

 

Oh yeah!  You guys may have to take up a collection so we can get home if the fuel prices keep rising!!

 

Hey, is anyone familar with this name? talleyllama  This was a follower of the blog that I blocked.  Herb and I both sent emails to this person asking who they were and there was no reply.