I thought I would put together the best part of our Loop…

Joys

The wild life we saw on our Loop.  The Dolphins that played in our wake.  The always graceful pelicans flying and then plunging clumsily into the water for food.  Jelly fish. Stoic  Herons.  Alligators.  Fungi.

Cannon Ball Jelly Fish in St Augustine, FL

Pelicans begging for handouts from Fishermen

Great Heron’s patience

Quirky Green Heron

Snake warming itself in the sun

Dolphins playing in our wake

Canadian spiders creating webs on our boat every day!!

Alligator along the shores of Western Rivers

Delicate fungi that look like mini-trees

Sunrises and Sunsets – 

Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between…

Sunset in October 2015

Sunset in Tennessee – October 2015

Sunrise in Killarney, Ontario – August 2015

Sunrise in Britt, Ontario – August 2015

Library – Book Exchange

Book exchanges in many of the marinas.  We rarely failed to find something new and different to read.  Leave one – take one policy mostly. Very nice to find.  Some of the book exchanges were filled to the brim.  Several only had a couple of books.

Book exchange cabinet filled to the brim in Cocoa Village, Fl

Book exchange in St. Augustine in the Captain’s Lounge

Small collection in Daytona Beach, FL

Remembrances that still make me smile:

That time when our guests were sitting on the flybridge during the early evening hours when we saw spiders like this one making a new web behind them.  Actually, on the outside of the eisenglass.  But, it looked like a spider was dropping from the ceiling to their shoulder and back up again.  As if the people were being incorporated into the spider web. No, we didn’t tell them at the time.  That is what makes us smile.