Greetings from Camp Fit

I can't believe how active we have been since we hit Florida. I feel like I am attending Camp Fit and enjoying every bit of it.

First we were in Sanlan RV Park where we were able to golf a few times as well as hike the beautiful trails the 4 days we were there.

Then we moved on to one of our favorite State Parks, Oscar Sherer, in Osprey. There we attended exercise class three mornings a week, rode our bikes about 70 miles total, did a 12 mile hike and several smaller hikes.

Now we are in the Everglades staying at Collier Seminole State Park. We have had visitors from the North for the past few days which is always a welcome taste of home. Monday we rode our bikes on the 15 mile Shark Valley Loop trail at Everglades National Park amongst the alligators. And I mean that literally. The gators come right up to the trail to laze in the sun. We saw hundreds of them.

The bird life there is also amazing. We saw bunches of wood storks, a bird that is approaching the endangered species list and many great blue heron.

The Great Blue Heron.

Today we went canoeing among the mangroves along the Mud River which eventually empties into the gulf of Mexico round trip about 4 miles. Don and I are not exactly experts at boating. We have this habit of going in circles. Once we went over a rapids on the salmon river in a double duckie backwards. So understand when I say I am very proud of us making it the whole way with only about 3 Mangrove incidents early on. Luckily Mangrove trees are very soft when you crash into them.

My mother never realized she had raised such a high adventure daughter. Bring on the next one.