Hanging out & voting results

Sunday November 4, 2012
Salt Springs Campground Site 81
Salt Springs, Florida

 

First the current news:  25 responses (including us-we voted absentee) reported 35 people voted and 7 did not.  That means from this admittedly teeny tiny sample, RVers are voting in greater numbers from mostly on the road than folks in their stix and brixs.  83% voted.  17% did not.   Although I couldn’t get the published statistics for yesterday’s election turn out I think I’m safe in saying that it isn’t anywhere close to 83%.   GOOD FOR US!!

 

 

And now back to the past -

Yes this post is dated a few days ago even though I’m just getting around to posting it.  The date is for me so I’ll know when we did these things.

 

We hung out with some great folks today.  I didn’t get very good pictures of them but it was 2 hours of wonderful times.

 

We pulled the kayaks from the campground down to the boat ramp on their wheels.  I’d say it’s about 1/4 mile.  We stowed the wheels inside the compartments and launched out into the Salt Springs Run.

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a BIG run.  Looks like a river itself and flows  4 miles in to Lake George  We were looking to see if we could paddle down and back.  Looks like that depends a lot on the wind.  Although I have read some reviews that said it wasn’t a great paddle because of the power boats and especially the air boats.  So I doubt that we will do it.

The springs are of course closed to boating but you can get within looking distance of them as did several much bigger boats than we.

 

 

I had no more than shoved off the bank when a nose the size of a dinner plate rose above the water and blew out some air announcing the presence of Manatee.  Thank goodness I didn’t jump high enough to fall out of the kayak.  I sure wasn’t expecting manatee.

 

 Mom was BIG and rolled over too fast for my wimpy camera

 

They were much too fast for my camera that seems to have to think about every picture it takes after I press the shutter button.  So the manatee would come up, I’d be focused and ready, I’d click and they were gone by the time the camera could get its act together.   I really need a camera that is quicker on the draw.   Should have returned this one when I could but……….

 

That’s a baby nose in the middle middle of those back ripples.
HONEST.

 

We spent two hours on a gorgeous day just watching a cow and her two calves swimming and playing around.  

 

We weren’t the only manatee watchers.

 

 

 

There were others on and around the water.

 

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Everyone was enjoying themselves in what passes for fall in Florida.  High today was 81 and low was 55.   Just about perfect.

 

 

 

We didn’t get many manatee pictures and we didn’t paddle a lot but hanging out with manatee and floating along on a great fall day is hard to beat.