Today we went to Kathrine Abbey Hanna Park in Jacksonville, Florida. :)
I was suuuppper excited for today, just because it was so nice to get out of the camper and go for a little drive.
The park has several large lakes, along with beach access to the ocean, yay!
It is currently the 'off-season' here in Florida, therefore the kayaking and boat rentals weren't available today, but we had fun walking around the trails and eating a picnic lunch!
Not until today, at least. I ended up wandering on my own for a bit, I tend to go at a slower pace than the rest of my family, considering I'm always stopping to take pictures of flowers, or something another that catches my eye.
So anyways, here I am walking down a path, and there are some people not far from me, one of them suddenly says, "do you see the alligator?" I walk faster over towards them, only to look over and see a gigantic alligator just hanging out on a log. I pretty much freaked -
my heart was racing, pounding out of my chest even. I felt so nervous and yet excited,
I was shaking all over. I ran back to find my family and I shown them the alligator as well, it was pretty awesome :)
Afterwards, we even saw an armadillo!!
Later on we drove over to the beach, and spent a few hours walking along the shoreline.
That's where we saw a group of dolphins! It was so amazing, I've never seen this many wild animals so up close before now!! :)
I didn't get a picture of the dolphins, by then it was getting clouded and dark and it started raining, so we had to leave.
I had such an awesome day, I really loved this park and I hope we come back here again sometime!
