So after he takes the guys on an hour or two morning hike they then come back and get me and we go out sightseeing. I must say that a lot of Florida is just not friendly towards dogs. We have had so much trouble finding any beaches were dogs are allowed. So the first couple days our trips were strictly driving as everyplace had large signs saying NO DOGS.
Today, we ended up going to a Savannas Preserve State Park - not on the beach - a couple hours south of Vero Beach. There were a lot of signs saying to watch out for alligators. But, now that we've been around here a bit, we know that alligators don't really come out in the cold weather. And believe me, it is cold - and windy. As we started our walk we started wondering whether another tornado may have been forecasted. Since we don't get local TV we really have no idea what may be going on weather wise. We then had a discussion about getting a weather alert device that they now make that will warn us when there are dangerous conditions. Needless to say, we were the only ones there.
Anyway, this was an unusual place. This time of year anyway it was very uninteresting. There were numerous ponds around. It was very easy to see that they were MUCH lower than normal.
The lily pads reminded me of the ones I would see on the lake we lived on while I was growing up.
The scenery wasn't all the pretty and there was no wildlife at all - at least that us humans could see. The dogs on the other hand thought this was the most fascinating place we have been on our travels. HUH?! It's very obvious we live in different worlds!
We don't know what they were smelling but Sparkie was running around at breakneck speed and hoping like a kangaroo. Wazzu was pouncing and rummaging through the brush non-stop. And little Slugger, instead of walking along nicely like usual, was pulling Mike the entire time - and most often pulling him into the brush.
These aren't the best pictures but I thought they would show a little bit of how Sparkie went non-stop for close to two hours. There was so much going on she couldn't decide which way to look.
She did hundreds of kangaroo hops - I wasn't fast enough to get her going up!
Full speed ahead.
Ears going every which way.
More ears!!
Notice the grass she was running through. Interestingly enough, on the other side of the pathway the terrain had been in a severe fire. I wonder now if the path we were walking on was the fire line they made to stop the spread of fire.
The dogs didn't really go to that side much at all. Not so many interesting smells there I guess.
As we got closer to the end of the walk we came across all this stuff that looked just like fishermen's nets. And it acted exactly like nets too as everything got caught in it and all tangled up - including the dogs! They got all tangled and couldn't get out. Mike had to help them. Slugger had marks all over him when Mike finally got him out. In actuality it was some kind of vine that had definitely taken over.
I did find some pretty grass in front of one of the ponds.
On our way home we stopped at a few beaches on the off chance that the dogs would be allowed - but no such luck. You'd think especially on a day like this where we were the only ones outside that it wouldn't hurt to let the dogs walk on the beach somewhere!!
Still looking for a beach.......
Debbie
2/5/07
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