Still No Snow But Cooler.......

Another tough day in retirement here in Wauchula.


Temps dropped into the 50Fs last night, making it very comfortable for sleeping as we could open the windows and not have the air conditioners running. The Florida weathermen must be related to the ones in Canada though because their forecast for today was not even close to what it was. It was cloudy and cool until after lunch when the sun finally made a brief appearance and pushed us up over 70F.

We enjoyed two walks around the 1.5 mile
perimeter loop of the park today. We went a little
further along one river bank in an effort to find the 12 ft alligator everyone talks about here..., "Stumpy".... but he wasn't anywhere to be seen today at all. Perhaps the cooler weather put him off a bit. Lots of spooky looking trees along the nature trail and we even found orange trees growing in amongst everything else. Chris kept herself occupied looking for gators and snakes. There was evidence that wild pigs had been out last night along the nature trail as places were dug up from where they had foraged for roots, etc.

RV parks are all about socializing and we have met all kinds of great people since arriving here. This afternoon we attended an ice cream social. A nice bowl of ice cream for $1.00 on the front porch area of the main store/office followed by lots of good conversation with our new neighbours. There is one other motorhome and also a fifth wheel with Ontario plates at the park but we haven't met the owners yet.

This afternoon we went for a drive, just to see what was around here. Zolfo Springs is about 4 miles south of here on Hwy 17 and then Arcadia is around 24 miles past that. We are dead center in the middle of Florida and there is a lot of ranch and wilderness country here. There are a few state parks near here which we hope to check out if we have time. Still hoping to find some quiet back roads for some cycling as well.

We received a question about our Christmas lights. We have a small 3 ft tree we bought at Walmart sitting on our dashboard in the motorhome with built in fibre optic lights that change colours frequently and also a string of the new white LED lights outside under our awning but unfortunately they don't photograph well enough with or without a flash to post here.