This morning we did our boat tour in the Okofenokee Swamp at 10:00. We probably saw 40-50 alligators, 2 turtles, various birds, two different kinds of water lillies. It was a really nice boat ride, the scenery was georgous, and there were plenty of gators to go around. While we milled around the pond in front of the Trading Post, Joe got a couple good pictures of gators right there.
Here's our boat coming in. There were 6 passengers: us 2, a couple from Germany and 2 ladies, one from San Francisco and one from Washington State.
This was our channel out to the lake. Very nice scenery.
And here I am, just enjoying the ride. It was nice to have a roof, and most of the time we were in shade, so it was a very comfortable boat ride. And here are some gators.
They've named this next one "Big Un" and he's over 14 ft. long. He's usually in this same area so they know where to find him.
Lots of interesting cypress trees. One was struck by lightning a long time ago but continued to grow. The guide said this tree is over 200 years old.
More scenery.
There are 4 baby gators on this log. One got off, then back on, while we watched.
We saw two yellow-bellied slider turtles, but didn't get a picture of them. Too soon, we were back at the Trading Post, and we headed back to de-camp. Joe dumped our tanks and we pulled out at 11:50, and encountered rain in about 30 minutes, so our timing was good. Joe said if we want to do anything outside in this part of the country, it looks like we need to do it in the mornings. We did see one deer cross the road on the road out.
With our late start, it was hard to get our 200 miles in, at least it seemed hard to me, and I wasn't even driving. We stopped at a produce stand and bought a watermelon, 2 vidalia onions, some Georgia peaches and tomatoes. Joe kept looking for his diet soda all day but never found it. We fueled once, but they didn't have any fountain drinks there. We did see a live armadillo cross the road, in fact Joe had to swerve to miss it. It was small, about the size of a rat.
We had rain off and on all afternoon, and we decided to make it a Camp Walmart night because we could see it was going to rain again, and it was 5:00 when we pulled off, 205 miles today. There's a Mellow Mushroom Pizza place on the Walmart parking lot that we are going to try. John and Bridgette went to one in Brandon, and they liked it so we will give it a try. And since we have phone signal tonight, maybe we will catch up on some phone calls to find out where our traveling partners are sleeping tonight.
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