GOOD/BAD DAY AT THE PARK…

My Home Park…(good)
my refuge …I go here to get away and be alone…I am so use to living alone (35yrs.) it has been very hard moving in with my elderly father…that I have not lived with since I was 18..I  am soon to be 69…in the pic below is the view out my front door the other day…

On this day it was very busy must have been a weekend…Sat. I think…a lot of boats…big boats and little boats shown in the pic below…

This is the second time I seen this …a couple 12/13 year old boys out for a day of kayaking and fishing…mostly its all about the fishing by looking at their  gear….they were gone all day…

The (bad)….
My heart had a sad sinking feeling when I seen this boat towing this gray thing behind it…I have seen this a couple times before ….

and my thoughts were right…I dead Manatee…it was so awful…so sad…poor little thing…was not an adult…but not a baby …was floating on his/her back  with little flippers across chest…made me cry….

The lady (seen her before also) from the Florida Wild Life came with this pick up truck to get him/her… the truck had a wench on it …so she was able to lift the Manatee out of the water and on to the truck alone…as sad as it was it was a very interesting process..
I did not take anymore pix of this…it was just to sad..I had to walk away and watch from the other side of the boat launch…there was a crowed of people watching…this is the fourth one I have seen that died in this area in the last 6 months…they do an autopsy on all of them…but what the news is saying all along the intercostal water way (the Indian River) it is probably pollution that is killing Manatee, dolphin, fish, birds and water animals…there is a big push to clean it up..I hope it succeeds and works… I haven't been posting because of the IE thing..but decided to bite the bullet   and down load a different browser…old habits die hard…any way did the Google Chrome and it works ok…but having problems with email with it…I will leave it here…thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M

SAD DAY AT THE HOME PARK

Early in the afternoon I seen the SEA TOW guy go out…then about 4pm seen him coming back towing something…not a boat.
Then these guys show up. Florida Fish and Wildlife.
With a big trailer on the back of there pick up.
Here they are picking up the tow…I talked to the Sea Tow guy ..he said they had called him earlier and ask him to pick up this dead Manatee. Seems like they were very busy today…this was the third Manatee…they had got calls about…so when they are busy they ask him to go out and pick one up for them….so sad….I didn’t go up and look in the trailer but the other two were in there. After I took theses pic’s we walked around the park…to sad to watch any more….but its part of life…I did see on the news  that there have been at least 40 Manatee deaths so far this year in Brevard Co. …I guess that is a lot….They are blaming the weather…cold snaps and then big warm ups so they go out into open water ..the cold comes and they are to far out to get back to the warm water…
This morning I went to a few yard sales and got a couple things and will post later on what I got. Also there was another encounter with a pelican. Not me this time but some boys at the park….
All for not thanks for looking and come back soon
blessing
G&M

AT THE PARK & HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Went to the park yesterday the first I have had MySweetDream out. My temp tags ran out and nothing from the state of Florida. So I called LaMesa and the send me another temp. Seen this guy floating around...looked like floating but the noise it was making it wasn't. There was a read led banner running underneath the GoodYear...but could not read what it said.

 And then this happening...wow...seen 4 of them today..this guy I could have reached down and touched him...but you don't want to do that...they are protected and you can get in big trouble...his eyes were looking right at me..as he was munching on the grass along the shore..it was high tide and they can reach the grass at that time.

I tried to get a pic so you can see just how big these guys are.. was a little hard with my cheapo camera. The 4 I seen today were new...usually I see the mom and her baby ...some other people there said they seen them earlier...maybe the big boys chased them away. Right click on the pic and then open and see them up close like it did.

And look at this sweet thing with the big ears. She was about 6 weeks old. At my dd house.

Making Thanksgiving diner...Was not going to cook this year..but dads friends gave him a small 10 lbs. turkey.. so did sweets, yesterday, cranberries this am...just finished the dressing and turkey is in ...that's it until we eat then I will make mashed tata's....I always enjoyed watching the Macy's parade ....but really could do with out all the singing and dancing....please just get on with the good stuff...my kids are in different places...dd has a craft show this weekend in Ocean City MD...so they took their TT and spent the week ...getting drift wood and sea shells...she sculpts then and paints old time father Christmas faces on them...son and family is at home in PA as is my sister...that's about it for family,..I really do not like being so far away :(  I hear a band playing on tv ..so maybe its time for the parade....And that's about all I will be doing today. Sunny and in low 70's today so that's nice..it has been very gray and cloudy for awhile. And cool.

all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings

G&M

 

 

SIGHTINGS…

At the home park yesterday we had a great sighting ! A manatee mom and baby! Finally something exciting to blog about.
It took me forever to get these pic’s. You can not see them both in either of these pic’s but they are there. They were eating the leaves off this tree that was hanging down in the water.This is the second time I have seen these two, the first time they were playing around out further and I could not get any pic’s as they were only showing their backs. I watched them for about 30 min then they wondered off. It really worries me now that I know they are there and the boats that don’t follow the rules. Your are only suppose to have your boat motor on idle when in this part of the intercostal water way. And believe me not everyone follows those rules.
And then at the beach the other day I saw this little fellow. Not so little as hermit crabs go. He had a beautiful large beach house. lol. He was pretty big…as was his house. It was hard to get him out of it for a pic.
Had a bad day today but getting over it…I wonder sometimes how much I should give on this blog…the bad with the good???
thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M

MANATEE PARK & A ROCKET

Breakfast camp this morning at our park, heard a roar, knew it was not a jet from the airport, so looked up and saw this. The roar from these rockets give you the chills.  Did not see the rocket but saw this trail. Air Force sent a Delta 4 rocket up with a GPS satellite for the military.So the news said.  Here in Florida you never know what you might see or happen upon.
The we found this park. This weekend there is going to be a craft show in old historic Melbourne. And I want to go spend most of the day there. So we were looking for a nice place in the shade to park for the day. Found this close to the action, I have been here before (after a geocache) and for got all about it. Walked around today. This will be our parking place this weekend.Very small park with these fake Manatee playing in a fake pool. The park is right across the road from another park where in the winter you can come and see the Manatee keeping warm. I have not been here in the winter to check it out but will do this winter. That’s about all for today, next post I will show you the park where you can watch the Manatee. Thanks for looking and come back soon.
blessings G&M