catmom46
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Consider yourself lucky regarding Starbucks. Between them and Chase, we're surrounded down here!
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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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Consider yourself lucky regarding Starbucks. Between them and Chase, we're surrounded down here!
NYwdwfan
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My "mayor" likes to weed her flower beds because her 3 boys and husband outnumber her and it's her only peace - and pretty much everyone in my neighborhood has AT LEAST 2 dogs. So they all stop and talk to her. We should call her house Cheers.
It's funny when you see a huge line at NYC Starbucks - the tourists don't know to walk another 15 feet to the next one.
unkadug
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I must be the only person on earth that has never stepped foot in a Starbucks. And there is one not even a mile from my house.
Lucky
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For me it's just something I walk past every couple of hundred yards because I can't afford it, like DVC kiosks at WDW.
Yep! And our slogan will be "Know your Tapirs!" @Zweiland came up with it. You can tell by his signature in the bottom right corner.
He forgot the Canadian Drywall Tapir....
acishere
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Princess Leia gets the Carbonite treatment in the new film I guess.
Arthur Wellesley
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Arthur's Epic Nature & Wildlife Adventurepalooza Trip Report
Part III
Welcome to the third installment of my Florida trip /photo report from the past couple weeks. For those of you keeping score at home, this third installment is the one which comes after the second installment, but before the fourth one. Just to avoid any confusion...
So picking up where we left off. Dad & I were hiking along the Anhinga Trail in beautiful Everglades National Park. We were hiking along a boardwalk which overlooks magnificent swamps & wetlands. We came to a wooded / shaded area of the terrain, and what do we behold sitting alongside the trail by merely feet, but a giant!!
This gal was HUGE. Pictures really don't do it justice. And don't ask why we assumed it was a "she". We really don't know. We just somehow started referring to it as "her". It could have been a male for all we know, but yet we still kept saying: "She's a big one!" So it sorta became an inside joke.
"She" was at least 7 ft in length. I actually laid down on the boardwalk parallel to her. I'm 5'11, and by observation according to Dad (who still thinks I'm absolute bonkers for laying down on a trail not far from a huge beast such as this), she was a good 1.5 to 2 ft longer from nose to end of tail. Here's a close-up of this magnificent "gal" as I was laying down even with her head.
She would drift off to sleep occasionally. (Apparently, I am very boring to her).
She would sometimes open her jaws. This was not a form of aggression or anger, but rather something gators do to cool themselves in hot temperatures. And believe me, this was a hot & humid day! Hence the reason she was taking full advantage of the nice shade.
Not too much later, we hear a startling splash come outta nowhere. And whaddya know...the big gal suddenly has company.
This fellow springs from the water & decides to join the big gal in a shaded nap.
TWO large alligators alongside the trail now. We were in wildlife photography heaven.
Eventually the big gal scooted on up a little bit. Possibly she didn't like the 2nd gator's nose so close to her tail? Either way, he didn't seem too offended.
And finally, just when we thought our encounters with alligators in the wild couldn't get any better for our first hike in the Everglades...heading back on the trail we see a third one sitting out. He/she must have snuck up to shore quietly, as it was not there when we walked past the first time. Dad is almost positive it's the exact same gator we saw swimming beneath the boardwalk earlier. By the looks/size of it, and the proximity to where it was laying...I think he's right.
I wasn't able to get a good pic of this one's face due to the angle which it was laying.
Witnessing these amazing ancestors to the dinosaurs in the wild is truly an experience too overwhelming for words. Gators have always been my favorite animal since a small child, and seeing such large ones up close & without barrier to us was simply jaw-dropping. Less than a mile long, yet one of the most remarkable hikes we've ever taken.
That pretty much wraps up our hike along the Anhinga Trail. But there are plenty more Everglades adventures still to come! To be continued in part 4...
Part III
Welcome to the third installment of my Florida trip /photo report from the past couple weeks. For those of you keeping score at home, this third installment is the one which comes after the second installment, but before the fourth one. Just to avoid any confusion...
So picking up where we left off. Dad & I were hiking along the Anhinga Trail in beautiful Everglades National Park. We were hiking along a boardwalk which overlooks magnificent swamps & wetlands. We came to a wooded / shaded area of the terrain, and what do we behold sitting alongside the trail by merely feet, but a giant!!
This gal was HUGE. Pictures really don't do it justice. And don't ask why we assumed it was a "she". We really don't know. We just somehow started referring to it as "her". It could have been a male for all we know, but yet we still kept saying: "She's a big one!" So it sorta became an inside joke.
"She" was at least 7 ft in length. I actually laid down on the boardwalk parallel to her. I'm 5'11, and by observation according to Dad (who still thinks I'm absolute bonkers for laying down on a trail not far from a huge beast such as this), she was a good 1.5 to 2 ft longer from nose to end of tail. Here's a close-up of this magnificent "gal" as I was laying down even with her head.
She would drift off to sleep occasionally. (Apparently, I am very boring to her).
She would sometimes open her jaws. This was not a form of aggression or anger, but rather something gators do to cool themselves in hot temperatures. And believe me, this was a hot & humid day! Hence the reason she was taking full advantage of the nice shade.
Not too much later, we hear a startling splash come outta nowhere. And whaddya know...the big gal suddenly has company.
This fellow springs from the water & decides to join the big gal in a shaded nap.
TWO large alligators alongside the trail now. We were in wildlife photography heaven.
Eventually the big gal scooted on up a little bit. Possibly she didn't like the 2nd gator's nose so close to her tail? Either way, he didn't seem too offended.
And finally, just when we thought our encounters with alligators in the wild couldn't get any better for our first hike in the Everglades...heading back on the trail we see a third one sitting out. He/she must have snuck up to shore quietly, as it was not there when we walked past the first time. Dad is almost positive it's the exact same gator we saw swimming beneath the boardwalk earlier. By the looks/size of it, and the proximity to where it was laying...I think he's right.
I wasn't able to get a good pic of this one's face due to the angle which it was laying.
Witnessing these amazing ancestors to the dinosaurs in the wild is truly an experience too overwhelming for words. Gators have always been my favorite animal since a small child, and seeing such large ones up close & without barrier to us was simply jaw-dropping. Less than a mile long, yet one of the most remarkable hikes we've ever taken.
That pretty much wraps up our hike along the Anhinga Trail. But there are plenty more Everglades adventures still to come! To be continued in part 4...
Lucky
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But World Tapir Day was April 27.I think I accidentally switched the "Tapir" and the "World" in that poster. Sorry about that.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/world-tapir-day-2015/
NYwdwfan
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Arthur's Epic Nature & Wildlife Adventurepalooza Trip Report
Part III
Welcome to the third installment of my Florida trip /photo report from the past couple weeks. For those of you keeping score at home, this third installment is the one which comes after the second installment, but before the fourth one. Just to avoid any confusion...
So picking up where we left off. Dad & I were hiking along the Anhinga Trail in beautiful Everglades National Park. We were hiking along a boardwalk which overlooks magnificent swamps & wetlands. We came to a wooded / shaded area of the terrain, and what do we behold sitting alongside the trail by merely feet, but a giant!!
This gal was HUGE. Pictures really don't do it justice. And don't ask why we assumed it was a "she". We really don't know. We just somehow started referring to it as "her". It could have been a male for all we know, but yet we still kept saying: "She's a big one!" So it sorta became an inside joke.
"She" was at least 7 ft in length. I actually laid down on the boardwalk parallel to her. I'm 5'11, and by observation according to Dad (who still thinks I'm absolute bonkers for laying down on a trail not far from a huge beast such as this), she was a good 1.5 to 2 ft longer from nose to end of tail. Here's a close-up of this magnificent "gal" as I was laying down even with her head.
She would drift off to sleep occasionally. (Apparently, I am very boring to her).
She would sometimes open her jaws. This was not a form of aggression or anger, but rather something gators do to cool themselves in hot temperatures. And believe me, this was a hot & humid day! Hence the reason she was taking full advantage of the nice shade.
Not too much later, we hear a startling splash come outta nowhere. And whaddya know...the big gal suddenly has company.
This fellow springs from the water & decides to join the big gal in a shaded nap.
TWO large alligators alongside the trail now. We were in wildlife photography heaven.
Eventually the big gal scooted on up a little bit. Possibly she didn't like the 2nd gator's nose so close to her tail? Either way, he didn't seem too offended.
And finally, just when we thought our encounters with alligators in the wild couldn't get any better for our first hike in the Everglades...heading back on the trail we see a third one sitting out. He/she must have snuck up to shore quietly, as it was not there when we walked past the first time. Dad is almost positive it's the exact same gator we saw swimming beneath the boardwalk earlier. By the looks/size of it, and the proximity to where it was laying...I think he's right.
I wasn't able to get a good pic of this one's face due to the angle which it was laying.
Witnessing these amazing ancestors to the dinosaurs in the wild is truly an experience too overwhelming for words. Gators have always been my favorite animal since a small child, and seeing such large ones up close & without barrier to us was simply jaw-dropping. Less than a mile long, yet one of the most remarkable hikes we've ever taken.
That pretty much wraps up our hike along the Anhinga Trail. But there are plenty more Everglades adventures still to come! To be continued in part 4...
I've always found you quirky and amusing but based on this report...seriously...you are crazy!!!
Goofyernmost
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But, but... you have Tim Hortons. How could Starbucks hope to compete?Consider yourself lucky regarding Starbucks. Between them and Chase, we're surrounded down here!
Goofyernmost
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I just had a new idea for a business!!! Perhaps someone should start an inter-starbucks shuttle service!
Sorry, you are not unique. I don't drink coffee so I have never had the need to go to one. I did think at one time that I should go so I could be considered one of the cool people, then I realized that it is difficult to get much cooler then I already am.
acishere
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Move to Canada. You'll be way more than cool every winter.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
There's a tiny glitch in your reasoning though.
@Goofyernmost doesn't like Canadians.
Except for me of course.
NYwdwfan
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Is she wearing heels? I thought he'd be taller!
EDIT: He's listed as 5'11" so she has to be wearing heels!