Christmas!
2018年4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Arrived in Florida finally, picked up the car and driving to the first hotel... but on the way it was Christmas!
Motel and IHOP
2018年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Spent the first night in a motel on the way towards the space coast.
Alex wanted to try IHOP for breakfast. It was tasty but way too much food for that time of morning.
Blackpoint Wildlife drive
2018年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Went for a really nice hike, but being in America we did it from the comfort of our air conditioned car.
It was really pretty and we saw so many things, lots of cool birds, alligators, snake,もっと詳しく
Blackpoint Wildlife drive 2
2018年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
More pictures of animals...
Manatee viewing
2018年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
On to the next animal we were hoping to see today, Manatees.
We were worried there may not be many here due to the time of year, but they were here. Sea cows doing pretty much nothing, whereもっと詳しく
St Augustine
2018年4月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Arrived at St Augustine ahead of schedule, so we had time to visit the fort and walk around town for a while.
St Auguastine 2
2018年4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Spent the morning walking around St Augustine and visited the Pirate and Treasure Museum yarrr....
Butterfly Rainforest
2018年4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Needed to visit somewhere on the way over to the west coast of Florida so we headed to Gainesville to visit the Butterfly Rainforest. It was cool being surrounded by butterflies. Less cool beingもっと詳しく
Antique shopping in Micanopy
2018年4月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Visited Micanopy which is famous for its antique shops. It was pretty there, antiques are not really our thing, but Judgy McJudgeAlex found something to buy. It's from the 1920's and probably sentもっと詳しく
The only city of live mermaids
2018年4月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Visited Weeki Watchee state park and watched the mermaids show.
They did Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid. It totally wasn't a Disney version rip-off at all. The Little Mermaid's friend was aもっと詳しく
Kayaking Weeki Watchee
2018年4月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
The real reason for visiting was to kayak down the river.
It was a beautiful place, although very busy. Casually kayaked following the flow of the river for about three hours. Saw another water snakeもっと詳しく
St Petersburg
2018年4月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Staying in St Petersburg tonight. Went out for food to a vegetarian/vegan restaurant called meze. The first time this holiday that Alex has had any options when looking at a menu. Food was reallyもっと詳しく
Dali museum
2018年4月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Visited the Dali museum today. Don't usually enjoy art that much, but we like Dali and the museum was done well, showing some of his early work and how he progressed towards his surrealism.
Some ofもっと詳しく
Rest of the day...
2018年4月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
So for the rest of the day we had food at the local airport, walked along the seafront to the beach, visited a mall for Alex to do some shopping including getting a 'Pokemon Go Frappuccino', and didもっと詳しく
Ringling Museum
2018年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Headed south to the Ringling circus museum today. They also had some fine art there too but skipped that...
There was an impressive mini circus model made by one man, one very obsessed man I wouldもっと詳しく
Peace River Wildlife Center
2018年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Next animal destination for the trip was a treatment and rehabilitation center mainly for birds and owls.
It wasn't huge, but there were plenty of birds that would have likely died if not for theseもっと詳しく
Fort Myers
2018年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Ended the day in Fort Myers.
Had food including a vegan burger for Alex and a key lime pie which was just stupid big.
Took a walk around the downtown area and along the seafront which had a niceもっと詳しく
Edison and Ford winter estates
2018年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
First stop today was Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's winter estates.
It was all about how they became friends and helped each other with inventions. Americans love when things are 'original' (onlyもっと詳しく
Skunkape and Post Office
2018年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Drove down to the Everglades to see more animals, mainly alligators...
On the way we stopped at the smallest Post Office in the USA. There was a happy friendly man in the tiny building. Must be a bitもっと詳しく
Shark Valley
2018年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Highlight of the day was a visit to Shark Valley (no sharks and not a valley).
We took a two hour tram ride into the Everglades with a really good guide and saw so many alligators and birds. Weもっと詳しく
Shark Valley 2
2018年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
More pictures from Shark Valley...
Coral Castle
2018年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The last day of the week long tour of Florida before Disney.
First stop was Coral Castle. Something about a Latvian man who had his heart broken, moved to America and secretly built a castle at nightもっと詳しく
Miami Beach
2018年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Next stop was Miami!
Visited Miami Beach, so much traffic, so many people. Meant we didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Despite listening to Will Smith on the drive in.
We walked around lookingもっと詳しく
Disney!
2018年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
We are here and everything is great!
The room is really nice and our view is out on to the Savannah where we can sit on the balcony watching giraffes and zebras walking past.
Visited Animal Kingdomもっと詳しく
Disney - Magic Kingdom
2018年5月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
So today was our first real day in Disney and it was time to meet up with the Bowen Party. So we used some of our snack credits (there are so many of them!) and off we went to Magic kingdom. I (Alex)もっと詳しく












































































































































Wanda Johns
Santa. Really!!