Sunday we went to see the re-enactment of the battle of Okeechobee which was fought during the Second Seminole Indian War. It was interesting and here are a few pictures taken during the re-enactment. The Seminole’s have never really signed a ‘peace treaty’ with the United States.
After the show we went to a local seafood restaurant for an early dinner. One of the ‘famous’ dishes is deep friend pumpkin bread. It’s good and unusual.
It rained most of Monday but we did manage to take advantage of a brief window of now rain drops to complete the trim on the shop building. Only thing left to paint there are the doors and we are not sure how Charlie expects to do that job. They are all metal doors (including 4 metal roller garage-type doors) and brush or roller applications would show. Ah well not our worry. It drizzled most of the morning and then broke for about 3 hours and then started up again.
For the past two days we have been out in the 6X6 Ranger scouting primitive camp locations and removing old fence posts. Spending six hours in the outdoors with 12 to 15 mph winds certainly tires us out. We’ve been to some locations that few folks ever visit in the park. Yesterday we were out in the northwest area following what we thought was the correct mowed ‘road’ but realized something was a miss. Glad we had the gps units and radio with us! Called in to the office and gave the intern our coordinates and she was able to tell us about where we were on the park map. We have been working with her to mark and verify areas for the creation of a new map for the park. Below is a satellite view of the park area, hopefully you can see all the various ‘roads’ in the park.
Today we saw a number of armadillo as well as turkey and deer. While eating dinner, a one antlered buck walked right by the back of our camper. The one antler he had showed 6 spikes.
Wednesday night we had to disconnect the water as the temp was to drop….and it did. Paul the park biologist noted that the weather gauge on the prairie near the visitor center showed a low of 19! That’s right 19 degrees in Florida. We tried to do some more trail work on Thursday, but after 3 hours we stopped. It was just to cold and windy. Temperatures are two warm up on Friday and more on Saturday so we may put in extra hours to complete our trail work.
It rained most of Monday but we did manage to take advantage of a brief window of now rain drops to complete the trim on the shop building. Only thing left to paint there are the doors and we are not sure how Charlie expects to do that job. They are all metal doors (including 4 metal roller garage-type doors) and brush or roller applications would show. Ah well not our worry. It drizzled most of the morning and then broke for about 3 hours and then started up again.
For the past two days we have been out in the 6X6 Ranger scouting primitive camp locations and removing old fence posts. Spending six hours in the outdoors with 12 to 15 mph winds certainly tires us out. We’ve been to some locations that few folks ever visit in the park. Yesterday we were out in the northwest area following what we thought was the correct mowed ‘road’ but realized something was a miss. Glad we had the gps units and radio with us! Called in to the office and gave the intern our coordinates and she was able to tell us about where we were on the park map. We have been working with her to mark and verify areas for the creation of a new map for the park. Below is a satellite view of the park area, hopefully you can see all the various ‘roads’ in the park.
Today we saw a number of armadillo as well as turkey and deer. While eating dinner, a one antlered buck walked right by the back of our camper. The one antler he had showed 6 spikes.Wednesday night we had to disconnect the water as the temp was to drop….and it did. Paul the park biologist noted that the weather gauge on the prairie near the visitor center showed a low of 19! That’s right 19 degrees in Florida. We tried to do some more trail work on Thursday, but after 3 hours we stopped. It was just to cold and windy. Temperatures are two warm up on Friday and more on Saturday so we may put in extra hours to complete our trail work.
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