Judy P's Tickle Trunk

Our home away from home at Nature’s Resort, Florida.

Morning view over the canal which feeds into the Hall’s RIver. We don’t get to see a full sunrise at this site but have noticed that it is rising a little earlier every day.

Sunday breakfast is my favourite meal. According to my calculations, the fresh fruit and whole grain cancels out the calories in the bacon, butter, and syrup.

With a full belly I am ready to kayak with the manatees again. This huge one surfaced right under the kayak but moved so slow there was little danger.

I was thankful for the underwater camera – reach over, aim, and hope for the best.

Wait, that’s not a manatee. That’s a man! With no T. Or pants! (he was actually wearing a swimsuit)

I can’t get enough of these gentle giants.

A fellow paddler exclaimed that the manatees looked like giant potatoes.

I couldn’t agree more.

Home for lunch and a rest while I do a little sketching in my ‘sketch-s-day’ journal I got for Christmas.

While I sketch on the dock I am visited by our campground pet, a great blue heron, who certainly thinks he is great.

Indeed, he thinks he is too great for us and he elegantly tiptoes off down the road.

He does return later to listen to Lance pick a few tunes before supper.

So ravenous at supper that I neglected to document it but this is the view from the dinette table.

And the sunset as seen from the rickety little dock.

And a later view from the dock. Look up, look way up. There goes Jupiter, there goes Mars.