We seem to be having lots of animal encounters lately. After the Kennedy Space Center, the next day we spent doing chores and hanging around the campground. On one of our walks we spotted several people standing around looking at something on the ground. We wandered over and saw a turtle that had just come out of hibernation. We knew that because it was still covered with the dirt from its burrow. As we watched a lady fed it some cantelope and the turtle seemed to enjoy the snack. Later that day we went to a local Presidents Museum. It was a cluttered collection of Presidential memorablia put together by a gentlemen who's been to every inauguration since Eisenhower. Apparently he's still collecting so the collection will have to move to a bigger building soon!
The next day we returned to Kennedy Space Center to finish seeing what we missed the first time. While there we spotted turtles, a heron and an alligator in an onsite lagoon. I enjoyed the animal encounters this time more than the exhibits! I packed a lunch and we drove to the Enchanted Forest to eat it. We worked off our meal by hiking around the forest for a bit and thought it really was quite enchanting. On the way home we stopped to view a group of turkey vultures hanging around to see if they would get lucky with some fresh roadkill. The sunset from the freeway was magnificent. The days are getting clearer, warmer and very pleasant to be out in!
Yesterday we moved south down the center of Florida. We're in Wauchula, FL now on the Peace River. Our campground stretches out along the Peace River and there is a lovely walking path along the river that our little Dudie enjoys immensely. There is always something to smell, lunge at, root around in and get excited over for him. I think he's enjoying himself. Today was another hang-around day. We're getting positively lazy with the warmth. Today and yesterday were in the 80s. Wow, we haven't experienced such warm weather since we left California. Wait, I don't think we had 80 degree weather in San Jacinto before we left home! This is nice!