January 22, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 23, 2011
The riders this morning left at 9:00 a.m. The short ride was about 24 miles. The long ride was about 40 miles. I went to the Publix grocery store while they were gone.
The handy man brought us a new refrigerator. Yea!
John arrived back around 1:30 p.m. I got ready, and he and I rode out to the Intercoastal Trail.
I only went about 3 miles on my new Anura Greenspeed trike. It was the first time on it since the
day I purchased it. It is quite different riding a recumbent, especially one that has no handlebars.
My legs and back were tired when we finished, but my new hip seemed to be fine.
Tonight a bunch of us are going to dinner at an Italian restaurant in town called Valenti's. We
were there for dinner a couple of years ago, and it was pretty good.
Pictures in an upcoming entry, as soon as I download them from my camera.
January 22, 2011
We drove to Merritt Island again this morning. Stopped at the Visitors' Center and walked the boardwalk. A male Painted Bunting was feeding near the building. A Ruby-throated Humming-
bird was feeding on sugar water in one of the gardens. This was a new Florida bird for me. Also along the trail were Redwing Blackbirds, Mourning Dove, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
We then drove the Black Point Wildlife Drive. There were many Tri-colored Herons, Great Blues,
Great Egrets and White Ibis. We also saw Glossy Ibis, Roseate Spoonbills, and a Bald Eagle. Very
few duck were there, a small flock of Northern Shovelers, a few Hooded Mergansers. Several shorebirds were running around on the mudflats, Western and Least Sandpipers, Short-billed
Dowitchers, and some Black-bellied Plovers.
We had lunch at the Moonlight Drive-in, where a carhop brought our tray of food and hooked it to the window of the car.
Then we head for Venice. Arrived at the motel around 4:00 p.m. Ceiling fan, refrigerator, and internet not working. Hot water very iffy.
Dinner at the Gold Rush, a nearby BBQ place. About 16 of us were there.
Friday, January 21, 2011
January 21, 2011
Left this morning from South Carolina around 8:30. Traveled through Georgia. Always enjoy the sight of the salt marshes, though not many birds were on the waters. Started to rain around noon.
Stopped in Kingsland, GA at a Shoney's for lunch. Pouring around 1:00 p.m.
Entered Florida on I95. Finally arrived at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge around 4:00 p.m. Raining again so birded from the car. Drove out a sand road we hadn't driven before. Saw several birds for the first time for the year: White and Brown Pelicans, Great Blue and Tricolored Herons, Great, Cattle, Snowy and Reddish Egrets, Shorebirds: Ruddy Turnstones, Semi-Palmated Sandpipers, Sanderlings, Dunlins, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Black Skimmers, Sandwich and Caspian Terns, White Ibis, and lots of other species, but nothing new.
We are in a Quality Inn on I95. Tomorrow we will go back into Titusville and go to the wildlife refuge again, driving the Atlantic.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
January 20, 2011
Started out at 7:40 a.m. Overcast but no snow. Roads were clear all through Ohio and W.Va.
Stopped for lunch at Tamarack in Beckley, W. Va. They have added a new gallery, The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
Continued on. The sun came out early in the afternoon. Dinner just outside Columbia, SC.
Bright moon tonight, full and reflecting yellow from the sunset.
Stopped in Orangeburg, SC for the night.
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