Wednesday, September 11, 2013

St. Andrew’s State Park

   September 11, 2013-On this “Patriot’s Day” we visited the nearby St. Andrew’s State Park.[again]

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The jetty and the bay

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  Up to this point in our trip the beach has had a yellow flag every day

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  Benjamin and Noah on a jettyIMG_7478

Moving on…

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   The water was even less clear inside of this bay.  The water had the color and visibility of tea, but was much too salty for any further comparison.

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It’s always interesting to sit near the bay and watch the ships roll in…

…oh, I feel a song coming on:

  We also visited the alligator park in St. Andrew’s:

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We brought some bait for the alligators!

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  With all of the rain that they’ve had down here this summer, the path was flooded by several feet!  These steps would have lead down to the path.

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   During the first week of our trip, these planes must have been doing some maneuvers from Tyndall Air Force Base and we’d hear them blow by probably a dozen times a day.  I would love to know what kind of planes these are.

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I would love to know what kind of planes these are.

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   I didn’t have time to catch a picture of the “North Thomas Dr” which would’ve been more fitting.

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A quick drive-by pic of the pier

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What a fantastic sunset!

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I love to see the wide variance of colors in a sunset’s “gradient”

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    Getting our mail shouldn’t seem like a big deal, but it’s taken a lot of phone calls and emails to finally find our mailbox, get the lock replaced, and get a new key.

2 comments:

Mazzou said...

I LOVE that bay! And the sunset...ahhh!!! Amazing! :)

Matthew Thomas said...

Those are some amazing landscape pictures! You all are staying in a picturesque place... complimented perfectly by good ol' Mr. Redding! (Love the tunes!)

I especially like the setting sun one... And I dare say, there were some pretty artistic pictures of Lydia (Like the one of her on the deck. :-)

Thanks for keeping us posted with pictures!
I love seeing what you all have been up to. :-)