I jumped on my Craigslist bike early today. The sun was gleaming through the front window and the water was brilliant blue. It just demanded that I go out in the cool wind and sunshine! So I did!
I love my new (used) bike. It is practically brand new and has a really nicely padded seat; perfect for my bum!
The oak trees line most of the path through the 3 parks I ride through and they are littered with caterpillars on their silk tethers trying to find a place to turn into butterflies. So I was virtually covered with them when I got to my first stop in Kapok Park.
I sat in the sun and ate my banana and picked up the cigarette butts around the bench. ( I have the hiker's mantra etched into my brain; leave it cleaner than you find it.)
I rode around Kapok park, kinda quiet there. Last time I was there I saw a lot of different birds; wood storks, ibis, limpkin, falcons, egrets and common moorhens. There are plaques at the park with the picture and name of the common birds. I love that! I didn't see any alligators there nor did I see any turtles.
When I was coming back I stopped at the lake at Cooper's Bayou and there was an alligator. He was trying to pretend he was a log, but I spotted him...hah! can't fool me. Got a picture of a Great Blue Heron fishing on the shore...they have a 7 foot wing span. I frightened him off and got to see that wing span..Wow! There was an unafraid Anhinga sunning himself around the same area. I couldn't get a photo of the alligator, too stealthy in the water and I wasn't going to try to coax him out of the water...yikes. They are scary to look at!
I had seen a flock of Roseate Spoonbills last night at the beach by the dock, which is rare, so I took a picture of them too. They are the quintessential Florida bird next to the Flamingo.
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