Showing posts with label glades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glades. Show all posts

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.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Hike

Wow, it’s been such a long time since I’ve posted! It’s hard to believe this is the first post of 2012!

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  The cold this winter has been so mild that there have been only a few days this year where it actually felt like it was January.  I think we’ve only gotten snow once and it was only an inch or two.

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hike-4It was because of this weather that we decided to go on a hike this afternoon with some friends.  The trail approx. 3 miles long and goes through the glades in the state park. 

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Oh, and of course Lydia came along too! She rode in the backpack most of the way, but near the end we let her do some hiking on her own.

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Comparing muscles with the tree

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We’ve had some great times together!