Guided Tours with Bob Brown
and the trip back to Winter
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our home away from home with Bob and Joyce
right on a little harbour


on the south shore ...
... of Lake Eustis

our hosts
Joyce
another local
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a quick stop for gas and munchies at the local 'variety store' on the Dead River

the tall Dead River cypress trees are home to countless birds

and then it was on to the Dora Canal: note the sign that gives bearings to various destinations

an interesting home right at the mouth of the Canal

but very soon it's like a jungle where civilization might never exist anywhere nearby!
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Great Blue Herons thrive in the Dora Canal...
...and everywhere


... else!
an Anhinga in the Dora Canal


more Dora Canal cypress
a Cormorant condo


not much in the way of alligator activity this far north in winter, but we got lucky and saw one


in the Dora Canal
plus a white heron


looks like the alligator got Bob's chart
tour boat at local resort
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and now all that was left was the
Midwinters and boo-hoo-hoo! the trip home
Tom Wharton, called us as we were leaving Kentucky, to tell us that nearly a metre of snow had fallen at home! Fortunately, when we got home at 10:30 p.m. Monday (above) it was not quite as bad as that but it still enough to chill Marc's Jamaican blood!!!
The next day, it was almost as though we'd never been away!! Above, Uncle Al clutches his Waldringfield Wayfarer mug full of coffee, and a bag full of Midwinters film as he prepares to drive the kids to school while SHADES shivers in the background.
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