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avril - mai 2018

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- 29 avr. 2018 à 15:33
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- États Unis Florida Hernando County Weeki Wachee Hills 28.52833, -82.6016728°31’42” N 82°36’6” W
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Kayaking Weeki Watchee
29 avril 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 and a manatee on the way.... oh, and a shark-dog.En savoir plus
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Voyageur You could make this into a movie... Paws. >.<
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- 29 avr. 2018 à 19:42
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 31 m
- États Unis Florida Pinellas County Historic Uptown Trinity Lutheran Church 27.77667, -82.6427°46’36” N 82°38’24” W
Jour 3
St Petersburg
29 avril 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 good.En savoir plus
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- 30 avr. 2018 à 11:30
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 6 m
- États Unis Florida Pinellas County Historic Uptown Albert Whitted Park 27.76667, -82.6327°46’0” N 82°37’48” W
Jour 4
Dali museum
30 avril 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 the names of the paintings were just as impressive, including 'Fountain of milk spreading itself uselessly on three shoes' (the fifth picture), and 'Dionysus spitting the complete image of Cadaques on the tip of the tongue of a three-storied Gaudinian woman' (the sixth picture). Say what you see I guess.En savoir plus
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- 30 avr. 2018 à 16:36
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 17 m
- États Unis Florida Pinellas County The Jungle Tyrone Railroad Station 27.8, -82.73527°48’0” N 82°44’6” W
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Rest of the day...
30 avril 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 an escape room with some randoms. We escaped with 30 seconds left. Busy day but fun.En savoir plus
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Voyageur OMG - its one thing going earlier than everyone else to the states, but getting a new Escape room team. That is beyond the pale!
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Alex Murphy Haha well you could have come with us ;)
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Alex Murphy Also we didn’t know they were going to pair us with other people
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Voyageur Alas, I really couldn't have. Also the "I didn't know" defence is pretty weak.
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- 1 mai 2018 à 11:39
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 16 m
- États Unis Florida Manatee County Ballentine Manor Stephens Point 27.38333, -82.56527°22’60” N 82°33’54” W
Jour 5
Ringling Museum
1 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 guess. Then the museum had things like walking the tight rope, a clown car, and the train carriages they used to carry animals from back in the day.

It was fun, they had nice gardens too, although Alex quietly dissaproved at their use of animals back then.En savoir plus
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- 1 mai 2018 à 14:41
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Altitude: Niveau de la mer
- États Unis Florida Charlotte County Punta Gorda Isles City Beach Park 26.91, -82.0966726°54’36” N 82°5’48” W
Jour 5
Peace River Wildlife Center
1 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 guys. There were bald eagles including one who was born with one wing and had never flown for example.

There were also visitors who are healthy but just wanted some free food.En savoir plus
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- 1 mai 2018 à 19:24
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- États Unis Florida Lee County Palm and Pines Mobile Home Park City of Fort Myers Yacht Basin 26.64667, -81.8716726°38’48” N 81°52’18” W
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Fort Myers
1 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 sunset going on.En savoir plus
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Voyageur I'm struggling to judge the scale of things in this picture
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Alex Murphy It was like 3/4 slices worth >.< We only wanted a small slice to say we tried it. Next time we shall ask how big it is!
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- 2 mai 2018 à 10:45
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 19 m
- États Unis Florida Lee County Waterway Estates Royal Palm Yacht Club Marina 26.63333, -81.8816726°37’60” N 81°52’54” W
Jour 6
Edison and Ford winter estates
2 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 like 100 years old) and lots of it was about the houses. I even flipped an original Edison light switch.

It was interesting and we could have spent more time there in the museum, but we had to leave.

Side Note: Fort Myers water tasted and smelt almost fishy, like the seaweed smell. Meant we didn't drink much in the restaurants.En savoir plus
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- 2 mai 2018 à 14:01
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- États Unis Florida Collier County Ochopee 25.90167, -81.2966725°54’6” N 81°17’48” W
Jour 6
Skunkape and Post Office
2 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ☁️ 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 of a boring job though...

Then went on to the 'Skunkape Research Center'. Expecting to learn more about Skunkape (the Bigfoot of the Everglades) and the sightings, we were a bit disappointed to find that there was just a shop and a small area of animals. Highlight for me being the Parrot that said hello. Alex found a cat.En savoir plus
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- 2 mai 2018 à 17:05
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- États Unis Florida Miami-Dade County Pops Hammock Seminole Village Shark Valley Lookout Tower 25.65667, -80.7666725°39’24” N 80°46’0” W
Jour 6
Shark Valley
2 mai 2018, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 really enjoyed it. They really do have great national parks in the USA.En savoir plus
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