Thursday, January 17, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013



Each morning our lake is visited by several species of water fowl. We enjoy watching the Great White Egret and the Great Blue Heron and wish we had the patience that they do to wait for fish. We haven’t seen either of them fish a golf ball out of the lake yet, but we have seen quite a few balls land in the water.
 



We made a quick shopping trip and I can’t understand why firewood is being sold here. Where are people burning it? It makes no sense to me when the temperature hasn’t gone below 63° since we have been here.



There are lots of parks and preserves in this state and today we discovered Veterans Community Park in Naples. We looked for 5 geocaches in the area.





We spent some of our time at Cocohatchee Creek Preserve which is a 3.64 acre nature preserve along the Cocohatchee Creek.  It was chosen for preservation because it contains several types of native habitat and a number of protected plant and wildlife species. We were advised to use caution near the creek as the resident gator lives there.


  It looks like Cordell kicked the wrong place and the alligator took his leg!




Of course, the parks here are open all through the year and there are so many of them that it is easy for the residents to make use of them.

We went to the Olive Garden for dinner tonight and I tried one of their new dishes. Both of us enjoyed our dinner and especially so because we were seated immediately, our food was served very quickly and we were back at our condo within 1½ hours—in time to take our naps before going to bed!






1 comment:

Melli said...

LOL! You two have retirement down to an art!