Good-Bye and Hello!

Farewell to the Abacos!

Looking back from our plane towards Marsh Harbour and Hope Town in the distance. 

Passing over Green Turtle Cay where we use to store New Horizon. After that we headed over the ocean, which was really calm.

Hello Daytona and the Land O' Plenty...plenty of people, traffic, supplies, food, and restaurants!

We flew right over Halifax Marina on the Intracoastal Waterway which looked like it had plenty o' boats.

After installing a new battery in the Buick (apparently we were away a bit too long, lol), recharging the air conditioning unit in the car, taking care of some business, and a couple of trips to the real land o' plenty...Walmart, today we headed west to Blue Springs State Park. It was a gorgeous afternoon there with very few people. Dave went snorkeling up to the head of the spring while I walked the boardwalk (boy, did that feel good!). 

At the entrance to the 'stream' as we heard one lady call it, Dave was swimming with a whole bunch of 3-4ft. Florida and long-nose gars, that you can barely see in the bottom of this photo. One of the fish had a chunk taken out of its side, and another one had its tailed chewed off. 

Luckily Dave didn't run into any alligators today. Better yet, they didn't run into him!

This little girl and her mother were kayaking down towards the St. John's River and saw this turtle. I have never seen anyone get this close to a turtle without it jumping in the water. It must be used to people or maybe it knew it was in a wildlife protection area. At least when the girl said that she wanted to pet it, the mother voiced an emphatic no, and they paddled on.

Tomorrow is Flea Market Day and then Sunday it is road trip time, heading north to home, hitting all the fast food joints we haven't been to in three months along the way. 😉 We are ready to continue our endless summer...if the snow is melted!