St Augustine Beach

Bob, (the other volunteer here), and I spent a couple of days last week repairing fence here. It is one of my favourite jobs here and as usual we had some friends on the fence posts. The first one is very common on the fence posts and is called a fence lizard. They are harmless and love to climb on to your back when you are not looking and ride in the pickup on the back of the seat or on the window ledge.

This critter is not so friendly, but they like to come out of the cracks in the posts and look like they are going to sting you. Scorpions.

On Monday we went to the beach in St Augustine. You can drive 4 wheel drive vehicles on the beach there so we drove down the beach and stopped to walk for a couple of times along the way. We were going to visit a few historical places downtown but it was way too crowded for us there. We might try again someday and go earlier in the morning.

 Janice was collecting shells in the surf and was tickled to find this barnacle that was purple!

We stopped in Polatka on the way home and had a delicious fish supper at Corky Bell's. It is a little restaurant on the shore of the St. Johns River.

Collection of Pictures

I have been collecting a file of pictures from here that are kind of random and don't really have a theme to tie them together, so I am going to just throw them on here. First of all, you might see this one a lot. One of our granddaughters won't read the rest of the blog unless the first picture has either one of us or the motorhome in it.

One of the tractors that I use here where we are volunteering.

This is one of the lakes here. We stopped work for lunch and ate here with this view in front of us.

I liked this tree with the hole clear through it.

This little lizard hangs out on our gate keypad here some days.

 Out riding around Sunday afternoon with the doors off. One of the many lakes here.

We hadn't seen a sign like this before.

Janice finally got to see one of the gopher tortoises that live here.

Kind of hard to see his head, but their feet can do some serious digging.

How many frogs can you see down in this pipe?