Hi All,
This morning we spotted the 3 local sandhill cranes along the campground road. This would have been more exciting had we not seen a pair of cranes in the CVS parking lot last night. Mary Rees came for a visit with her friend Mary. We had lunch at Square Meal then visited our motorhome. After they left we hiked along the campground roads again. The cranes were out in the meadow now but the walk did not lack interesting sights. We spotted a sun dog, a rainbow like patch of sky to the side of the sun (22 degrees to be precise). The picture with Carl's iPhone came out better than expected. Next we encountered a turtle along the road. Later we checked out one of the gopher tortoise burrows and, using our binoculars, spotted the tortoise inside . Trust us, there's a tortoise in there.
As idyllic as this may sound, almost the entire walk was accompanied by screaming low altitude passes of F/A-18s. Air operations at nearby Naval Air Station Jacksonville were in high gear and we were right under the flight path as the jets returned from the bombing range south of us. Freedom isn't free and sometimes it is very, very loud.
As this is written the jets are gone and we are sitting outside in the late afternoon with the forest pretty much to ourselves.
Love
Sandy & Carl
Photographed and sent from Carl's iPhone
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