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Apr 2, 2012

Birding at Disney Wilderness Preserve

Last week, I took a morning off and went birdwatching  with my neighbor, Sheila.  We decided to visit the Disney Wilderness Preserve.  According to their website:

“Heavily logged and used as ranchland for decades, the preserve is restored very near to its original state. (Records remain from the area’s first Spanish missionaries.) Large-scale wetland and upland restoration has included the removal of non-native, invasive plants and grasses and the removal of agricultural ditches.”

It was fascinating to think the area looked just as the early Spanish explorers would’ve found it.

The Preserve is also working with The Nature Conservancy to re-establish the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker in the preserve. I’ll definitely come back some time and look for them.  (This woodpecker can only be found in the United States.)

We discovered a baby gopher tortoise on our path.   I’ve seen adult gopher tortoises before (at about 15″ across); this baby was about 2″ across!  I used this great online key for identifying turtles to figure out what this little fellow was.

If you’d like to know, we spotted: gopher tortoise, stork, sandhill crane, little blue heron, greater yellowlegs, osprey, red-bellied woodpecker, pine warbler, turkey, eastern meadowlark, loggerhead shrike, catbird, tufted titmouse, and hundreds of tree swallows.  We also saw a number of butterflies, but didn’t identify them.

Enjoy some pictures of  the birds, the tortoise, and the preserve itself.

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Jan 28, 2012

Christmas with the Family 2011

We had a very full visit with all the family together for Christmas.  I uploaded about two dozen photos from our Christmas vacation into a Facebook photo album.  You can look at the pictures even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

I hope I can find time to write about some of the details of what we did, but for now, feel free to just enjoy the pictures and captions in the Facebook “photo album”.

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Jul 1, 2011

A Visit to the Animal Kingdom Lodge

Our newlyweds, Ben and Bonnie, visited us this past weekend for Jenn’s twentieth birthday.  We had a lot of fun and enjoyed being together.

One of our favorite things to do is to go early in the day to Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge.  Disney does a fantastic job creating an African atmosphere.  We love the architecture, the interior, and the grounds.  We wandered around to see the different animals in the three savannahs surrounding the lodge, taking some family photos, like this one.

Next, we headed to their breakfast buffet at Boma.  The food is delicious with several African dishes to try.  We’ve gone at dinner time before, which is also good, and pricier, of course.  Breakfast time is still our favorite time to come for special occasions.

If you want to try this, the animals will probably be more visible nearer to dusk or dawn.

Related Post: Brunch with the Bongos

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Apr 8, 2011

Try DeLand for Something to Do

inside an old barber shop in DeLand, Florida

Looking in the window of an old barber shop

DeLand, Florida, is just an hour or less from Orlando or twenty minutes from Daytona Beach and offers a variety of things to do.  Now that Jenn goes to school in DeLand, we’ve been in the area more and have made some great discoveries.  If you’re a tourist visiting Disney or the other attractions, maybe you would find something to break the “tourist mold” on your way to Daytona Beach. There’s something for everyone!  (See the bottom of this post for a link to restaurants, for a blog with updates on events in DeLand and for the Stetson University calendar of events.)

What we recommend personally:

We haven’t made it here, but hope to:

We’ll not try this!

  • Skydiving
  • Cave diving in some of the local springs

RESTAURANTS:

NOTES:

NOTE: This post is part of the series of recommended tips for enjoying I-95.

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Dec 25, 2010

Vero Beach

seafood restaurant in Vero Beach, Florida

The Ocean Grill in Vero Beach, Florida

I definitely want to go back to Vero Beach!

We arranged to meet friends at The Ocean Grill in Vero Beach, Florida, for dinner three weeks ago. (It’s less than two hours down the turnpike from Orlando and then you take route 60 from Yeehaw Junction until it dead ends at the restaurant.) The Ocean Grill has very tasty food (pricey, though) and a fun, eclectic interior. It was full very soon after it opened at 5:30. I’d put in a reservation for the restaurant and be prepared to pay $22/dinner, but there’s a few lower-priced items or even a tasty soup and appetizer. I had Chicken Oscar. Their lunch menu is definitely cheaper (under $10.)

I felt like we were in “another country” just because Vero Beach was so different from Orlando. You could park near the restaurant and do shops and walk the beach. There’s plenty of beach access points along A1A north and south of Vero Beach. Disney has a resort north of the restaurant on A1A.

We arrived in Vero Beach well before dinner, so we stopped at the McLarty Treasure Museum. It takes less than an hour to do this museum and only costs a few dollars. It was fascinating to learn about 1,500 survivors stranded here when a fleet of Spanish treasure ships sank off the coast in 1715.

Pelican Island NWR

Pelican Island NWR

We only had a half hour to stop at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge was America’s first National Wildlife Refuge. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order to set aside this land for wildlife in 1903. (Read more…)

I can’t guarantee you would see dolphins, but if you want to try, go straight in past the first parking lot in the Refuge and then turn at the next right into the Centennial area. It’s an easy walk to the observation tower overlooking the Indian River. We saw a pod of dolphins feeding in the river.

After dinner, we drove past a large home with lots of Christmas lights in a huge front yard off of route 60 not far from the restaurant. If you’re in Vero Beach in December, read this article first and then this article to learn more. Apparently you can drive around the outside of this large home, at least, to see hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights. (Maybe we should have stopped.) They also have special times to see the twenty decorated rooms as well.

Here’s a good list of things to do in and near Vero Beach; most of the things in the second half of the list “within an hour” are south of Vero Beach.

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