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                        Happy New Year 2012

New Year's Eve we had dinner 6:30 PM, listen to a Do Whop Band, played 50s music  until midnight. Upon leaving the ballroom the night sky was full of fireworks of all types and sizes blasting a way for 45 min.

Clermont Florida TT Orlando

                             Merry Christmas to all

Clermont Florida TT Orlando

    Wishing everyone a great Christmas

On Christmas Eve I walked around the park looking at Christmas decorations

the flamingos are dressed up for Christmas

they have snowmen here too

Christmas trees

Santa Claus has a green RV

these decorations set up to flash to music

This is my RV

More flamingos they  fit in down here it  was 85° today

Clermont Florida TT Orlando

I am writing this at 12:12 a.m. it is 65°

we went to Universal Studios to the Blue Man  Group show it was a very good show lasted one hour and 45  minutes.  It was a great show there was action continuous and was very funny. The show started at 6:00 p.m.  we got there at 430 p.m. the sun was setting.

 

Things were sprayed from the stage we were in the third  row we had plastic on us

in the last act they pulled this paper over the whole audience the theater was full of people

Now you can see me

<><><><><><><> These guys were the drummers

 they use black lights so they looked like skeletons did not get pictures with the Blue men would've taken an hour so many   wanting to take pictures and there were three of them .

This is a restaurant that we had dinner at  after the show you can see Forest Gump sitting with Sandra

I took this picture when we were leaving to give you an  idea how was lit up at night .

Clermont Florida TT Orlando

I arrived back in Orlando at noon today will be here 20 days and plan to check out many of the sites it's cooler now 75°  – 77°  in the day in around 61°  –  62°  at night about 5° or 10° cooler than Peace River. Will be here over Christmas  Will be  cooler to celebrate. It was 80° when I arrived here last year today it was 45° so it does get cold here hopefully when I'm not here.
Did my laundry when I came back. So no pictures but the one of my RV parked East before I parked last time from this spot I can see the fireworks in Disney World try to take a picture of the fireworks   camera was to slow

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The weather here has been very mild upper 70s and lower 80s during the day and   52 one night the rest  in the lower 60s .(Looks like we picked the right area to spend the winter so far hope it stays this way )
Today I drove to the Gulf of Mexico about 50 some miles north east. I reach the coast on a outer island at the southern mouth of Tampa Bay. it was an easy trip no traffic until I reach the coast. I pass through a lot of grapefruit groves, orange groves, some farmland and a lot of cattle ranches.
 Near the coast the highway crossed over three  inland waterways connected to Tampa Bay.
 The coast was all hotels and  residence. The state, counties and cities all have access to the water for the public,
where I went to the beach was an area called Holmes Beach operated by Manatee County and the City of  Holmes.

Looking south

looking north the area at the top is the jetty for Tampa Bay

looking West

I change the contrast I did not watch where the sun was when I took the picture

this is the way it should have looked it was overcast

Looks like snow doesn't it, but it's just white sand

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Today on my walk I finally got some good pictures of an alligator. He was laying on the sandbar in the river. If you look near his tail you will see a red cup. Not far from there on a log there was a large turtle.
January 16 through the 23rd I will RV Park in Fort Myers Florida which is 60 miles south of the Peace River Park .  I went down there to check out the trip and the park. It was 60 miles of orange trees, farmland, cattle ranches and woods  one  town.

The two alligator pictures are the same alligator just moved to get a better shot

he was across the river from me and I was on a cut bank about 10 feet above the water

A lot of times there's a smaller one up on his back

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Wauchula Florida

The first thing Happy Thanksgiving

We will be having  dinner at the park they are throwing a big feed.

    Left Orlando at 9 AM arrived at the Thousand Trails Peace River RV Park (here for 21 days) at noon. It is interesting place.The temperature was 81° when I arrived. A cold front came through rapidly leaving a little bit of rain. The temperature now at 7:11 PM is 75° with the humidity of 78% kind of sticky. It is supposed as they cooler for a couple of days in the 70s then back up to the 80s

Walk around the park some took a few pictures

There was an alligator on the far bank   this is the Peace River

A hundred feet up stream this person was screening for fossils said the water was 72

this was near where I was standing they must be friendly

lots of moss

This part of the park was flood in Oct. they checking the elect

on the nature trail

The nature trail

Ibis there were three groups of them

This guy was in Orlando

Clermont Florida TT Orlando

 Now that I've spent 10 days hear in Orlando there has been two cold fronts. There was wind for a couple of days on each cold front and a little rain for the first one. The temperature dropped maybe 8°  or 9° which made it 70° in the day and 50s at night nothing to complain about. What I like about here is there is no dust.
 Haven't been anywhere after all just drove 12,000 miles approximately need is a little rest . It is beautiful here and quiet so good place to rest.. I try to walk a mile or more in the morning and evening. Talk to a lot of people on my travels in the park walking .I found out today that the alligators come out in the evening so that's why have not seen any.  They saw one  it was a four footer at the dock last night so I miss that one. The guy that I was talking to was fishing and he caught a couple of what he called Brim?  I'm adding a picture of it for you to check out.

Sunset

the balloons flew over for two days it was cool in the morning there were eight of them

pictures taken out my front door

Mitchell's RV under the  balloon

buzzards looking for a place to roost

the lake in the evening