What a gorgeous day! It was sunny and got up into the 70's - it felt like May in February! We got all of our errands done this morning: laundry, grocery shopping, packing for our field trip and paying bills. We then drove about a half hour south of Tallahassee to Wakulla Springs State Park. The spring is one of the world's largest and deepest - the water is a constant 70 degrees. We took a boat ride down the river and then back to the spring. We saw so many birds, ducks, and reptiles: alligators, Suwannee cooters (turtles) - both pictured above, widgeons, mergansers, wood ducks, moorhens with their bright red bills, coots, anhingas, cormorants, vultures, a red-tailed hawk, great blue, green and yellow-crowned night herons, American and snowy egrets, and ibis. Up until last week, there were manatees in the river, but the cold weather chased them out. We then got a bite to eat at the 1937 lodge. We then drove down the road to St. Mark's National Wildlife Refuge. We went done to the lighthouse that sits on the Gulf of Mexico - lots of pelicans and gulls down by the shore. We came back to town and will have a small dinner - soup and sandwich which we picked up at the grocery store. Then we will have to pack our food for the field trip to the Suwannee River. We have to meet everyone at the lab before 7 AM so I guess we will skip our walk tomorrow - but Dave pointed out that we will be walking all day tomorrow as we do our test digs along the proposed trail. By the way, we went to see Gran Torino last night - excellent movie! Clint Eastwood should certainly get an Oscar for his performance.
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