FL Day 2: May 24

Note: These blogs will only show my favorite pictures and pictures relevant to the story. There is a slide show of all of the pictures in the blog side-bar. Click on it to see all of the pictures of the trip. I'm practicing making myself look fabulous in pictures. But Steve is not. Though, he is practicing taking the good pictures. hehe.

Anyways, It stopped raining as we entered Florida. We then arrived near Jacksonville to Little Talbot Island State Park.

Most of Florida's state parks have an office or a "nature center" full of mounted animals.

Once we got to the site, we set up the tent and laid everything out to dry. We then went on a short hike.

On our walk, we saw many fiddler crabs and a gopher tortoise.

We saw some little lizards by the restrooms. We were gawking at them in front of some dude. We later figured out that the lizards are actually all over the place, just like squirrels are here in Maryland. So, we probably looked pretty silly.

This was one of my favorite sites of the trip because not only does it have the beautiful palms and spanish moss and so forth, it has an ocean beach within walking distance from the campsite.

We did another short hike in the afternoon where we saw a very sad looking palm tree.

We returned to the beach for a night walk to look for turtles but since lights weren't allowed and we didn't want to blindly step on little creatures, we decided to sit on the boardwalk and watch the waves and talk to each other. I really liked that moment. Since we didn't think that we'd be able to see the turtles anyway and it was getting close to bed time, we left the beach before it started getting too dark.

We saw something running in the dark along the road. We thought that it was an armadillo but it disappeared before we could get a closer look at it. We also saw tons of little frogs/toads.

During the night were heard something moving around next to our tent. We looked out and saw that it was another armadillo. We heard it circling the tent for quite a while. The next morning I figured that it was enjoying the little ant hills.