Snail Kite

Posted on April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 by Dusty Roads

Wow, my work has gone from zero to 60 in .5 seconds. One minute I’m drifting along at a nice slow pace and the next I’ve my nose to the grindstone, no time for anything. My head is spinning. But that’s why I haven’t had time to post much.

Even with the craziness I try to check my Facebook page at least one a day and what was staring me in the face but a picture of that bird I saw in St. Cloud!

Wild Willy was right, it is a very rare bird. It’s a Snail Kite (formerly called the Everglades Kite). It’s a Neotropical species found in the wetlands of southern Florida. It’s main diet is snails, snails called apple snails.

The Snail Kite is endangered in North America so I guess I was very, very lucky!

Where Dreams Come True

Posted on April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 by Dusty Roads

There’s always something happening at the Magic Kingdom. You can pick up a schedule of events but we did it one better…we had our personal guide, my good friend JR. Since he works at the park he was filled with ways to get the most out of everything the Magic Kingdom had to offer.

We even managed to squeeze in a mid day parade.

These are camera phone pictures. I left my camera at the time share because we had signed up for the Memory Maker, the Disney photo service.

Makes traveling the park much lighter.

Gatorland

Posted on March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 by Dusty Roads

Gatorland was certainly a high point for the trip. Between you and me, my young guests said they liked it better than Animal Kingdom!

Gatorland gets you up close and personal and if you are into big lizards there are certainly enough gators and crocodiles to satisfy all.

Besides the gator wrestling show you have a chance to sit on a real gator in the ring just as if you were doing the wrestling. Of course your gator has his jaws taped shut for safely.

There’s also the feeding frenzy where handlers hand feed the big gators and even a few crocs. They send chicken carcasses on lines out over the gator pond to encourage the animals to jump for their meal.