July 9, 2010

7.6.10

We spent yesterday traveling S. Another stop at Shrimp R Us for a late lunch/supper. It was too hot to stay at the dock so continued on to Silver Glen Springs.

We anchored closer to the entrance than we normally do. We saw a 9’ gator sunning in that area a month or so ago and I was hoping it would cruise by for a photo shoot…..we didn’t see the big one but this little 5-6 footer was nearby sunning itself.037cs

We didn’t see many gators this trip, but the Painted Turtles are everywhere. This one swam up to our boat a couple of times.027cs

This one is enjoying the sun…looks like it’s getting ready for take-off.

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Even though the big gator didn’t come around…we were glad we anchored there. Jim spotted this Manatee by our dingy.236cs

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She swam around and under the dingy and then the boat…and headed back to the lake. The surfaced for air right by the dingy but I was heading for the camera at the time. They have cute little faces.

1 comment:

Desert Survivor said...

Wow! lovely photos! and a manatee to boot.