Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

For mothers day we surprised mom by taking her over to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park.

I was pretty excited about this day, mostly because if you haven't noticed I'm super duper in love with animals!!

Not only was it an awesome time to look at cute and vicious animals, I actually learned a few things I didn't know prior to this visit.
Such as hippos are extremely lazy and just kind of lay there in the sunshine. Or how it's awkward when an owl stares directly at you without blinking, or that even the Florida Cougar is rarely scene, and when it is, it's sleeping in a tree.




Also, did I mention we got to ride along the river on a boat? Yes, that was pretty cool, and there was even a 'tour guide' who would speak through the microphone and tell us about the things we're seeing,
such as "oh that's a Anhinga bird over there" or "look at those snapping turtles over there by that rock" and so on.


Also, It was Joshua's first boat ride! It was such a fun day!! :) We also went out to eat at a Japanese Resturant afterwards, the food was good <3 I'm glad mom had a nice Mother's Day... it made us all very happy.

Day at the Beach!

great blue heron

to be honest, I never thought I'd enjoy living in Florida, but I've found many advantages, such as living so close to the beach! Never in my life have I spent sooo much time at the ocean, and I really, really love it.

today in particular, we stopped at the local beach and just hung out all day. I myself didn't get in the water, but Joshua had a blast splashing around. I found myself wandering around along the shore, snapping pictures of anything that flew by. :)

Tree Frog

We have a little tree frog living in our camper now...

He leaves every night, and comes back in the morning. And just sleeps all day.
Mom has named him froggie.
I don't know how I feel about this...

Rainy days...

I spent the day drawing... nothing special

you can see the finished drawing over here :)

Flowers!

It doesn't feel like spring until my camera lens is covered in pollen.

Turtle Turtle Turtle

I love turtles, I mean they are pretty cool dudes. But here in Florida, they are freaking everywhere, and I'm not even exaggerating. In the campground alone, I have counted almost seven in one field... just one field, there is seven of these guys.

Honestly I find this to be rather strange, I've never seen this many turtles before in my life, so it's pretty darn cool.