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This is the view out our window near sunset. We are looking east while sun sets in the west. This was Bob’s last night, he left on Friday to drop his van off for repairs of his transmission’s electronics problems. They said they would drop him off at the airport to fly home for his daughter’s birthday. He flies back on the 24th and hopes they fixed his van. After that he will be staying with a friend at Ft Myers beach for a while. He may catch up with us again at some point.
On Saturday we paddled our canoe 7 miles up and back on Telegraph Creek. The first section of the river passes through an area with homes visible along the river. The houses, though, are surrounded by trees and set back from the water so they don’t detract from the beauty of the surroundings. It’s the only place we've paddled where we’ve seen zebra, llamas, camels and big horn sheep along with alligators, turtles and a variety of birds!
We tried the same creek last year but the flow was so strong that we only made it up about a mile, to where we saw the llamas. This year we negotiated the narrow creek past some other kayakers and fisherman up into Babcock Ranch Preserve. The fishing must be good as several fisherman said they had caught a dozen big Bass.
We paddled until Peggy got tired, I kept hoping we would find the palm tree that went over the river, where 11 years ago we really saw an extremely rare Florida Panther laying on the palm tree that we were about to pass under. In those days we never saw anyone else on this tiny wild creek.
are those new llama photos? I remember them from last year
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