Early Saturday morning we went for a walk. As usual, we stopped at the footbridge to check out the canal. I was insanely happy to see OUR (yes, it is OURS!) big nurse shark swimming back up the canal. It had been a long time since we had seen him. Of course, we hadn’t been looking as much as in the past. I was rather afraid some knuckle-dragger had caught him.
I didn’t have my camera with me (my bad...). But here is a picture from last year
We went kayaking that evening. I shot a pretty nice sunset photo. The water was nice and still, which makes for a really great kayak trip. I spend most of the time looking down in the water trying to spot wildlife. Three people have told us about seeing dolphins around the canal. If I saw them, I swear I would jump out of the kayak and swim with them!
Sunday evening we went back out after hearing rumors of a manatee sighting. We didn’t see any manatees, but we did find at least 6 HUGE tarpon . I never did get a photo of them, but it was a REALLY cool experience. The ones I got a good look at were probably 6 feet long. They swam by Tiny’s kayak and were about half of its 13 foot length. The first word that popped into my head was “prehistoric”. Here’s a link for a photo that I found on the internet.
Life is good.
Early Saturday morning we went for a walk. As usual, we stopped at the footbridge to check out the canal. I was insanely happy to see OUR (yes, it is OURS!) big nurse shark swimming back up the canal. It had been a long time since we had seen him. Of course, we hadn’t been looking as much as in the past. I was rather afraid some knuckle-dragger had caught him.
I didn’t have my camera with me (my bad...). But here is a picture from last year
We went kayaking that evening. I shot a pretty nice sunset photo. The water was nice and still, which makes for a really great kayak trip. I spend most of the time looking down in the water trying to spot wildlife. Three people have told us about seeing dolphins around the canal. If I saw them, I swear I would jump out of the kayak and swim with them!
Sunday evening we went back out after hearing rumors of a manatee sighting. We didn’t see any manatees, but we did find at least 6 HUGE tarpon . I never did get a photo of them, but it was a REALLY cool experience. The ones I got a good look at were probably 6 feet long. They swam by Tiny’s kayak and were about half of its 13 foot length. The first word that popped into my head was “prehistoric”. Here’s a link for a photo that I found on the internet.
Life is good.
Big Daddy leading the way
Sunset...I miss the old watertower
