Chris arrived Jan 10th to spend her days off with me. We had a great visit which included several mornings of pickleball here at Tanglewood. Yesterday, some of our friends from Peace River came over to play. We played until 11:15am and then cleaned up so we could head on over to Homer's Buffet for lunch. They offer a great smorg for $8 each.
Today, we took it easy and decided to go back to Highlands Hammock State Park for an encore visit. The park is only a 10 minutes drive from Tanglewood and costs $4 per car to get in and stroll the grounds. It was cooler and overcast today which made for some great photographs without the usual harsh shadows we see when the sky is clear and the sun is shining brightly.
Here is Chris sitting at the base of a 1000 year old oak tree. The tree measures an astounding 36 feet around at the base.
This is a shot of towering cypress trees refected in the swamp water along our favourite trail inside the park. (Edited in Photoshop CS4)
We met a couple of ladies in the car park who told us which trail to check out if we wanted to see some alligators. We had to drive a short distance to the north edge of the park and follow along a river before we saw a couple of small gators sunning themselves in the shallow water. You'll have to check out Chris's blog to see pictures of the gators though. She had the longer telephoto lens and managed to get some nice shots. I stalked this great egret as it fished in the river for it's lunch. This is a hand held shot at 1/20 second, so I am pretty pleased with how crisp the focus is.
Hope you like the photographs. If you do please leave a comment at the end of this post.
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