We have a bird's nest with three eggs behind the washer and dryer in our washroom, we also have a nest in our gator glove box, with four eggs.  That reminds me, "Hooray, Hooray, it's almost the First of May, outdoor screwing starts that Day!" 

Well settled into our routine, clean the washrooms, then drive around in the gator and clean the campsite firepits, lots of thunder storms and lightening.  Rains a lot, but the days are usually sunny and hot.  Visited Jim and Marge in Lake Helen and had a great time playing buttons.  Visited Gamble Rogers park and watched a bull Manatee with half a dozen females just having a ball. Watched an Osprey fly up to it's perch with a large fish, then watched it eat for an hour,  Gamble Rogers is another state park a few miles from Tomoka, on the ocean, we get a day pass and enjoy the differences, we have seen a couple of large snakes in Tomoka, neither poisonous we are told by description,  Enjoyed the last few days with Paul entertaining A Liners of Florida with campfire comedy.  The A Liners motto is " Friends don't let friends use canvas"    Went to a M.A.S.H. party at the local legion, one great "Hot Lips", and a great Klinger, one guy came as a doctor, with a large note on his back, it said " I am not a gynecologist ,but if you want, I could take a look"  Lots of guys wearing old parts of their original uniforms,  Paul received a set of dog tags for his story of being an actual "Radar" in a Canadian Field Ambulance.

Sitting on the beach yesterday, where we noted a few dead jellyfish and some kind of large dead bird, along came the rangers on ATV, they photgraphed it and then identified it as a Common Loon, never thought of loons in Florida, thought they were a very Northern bird, they said they had got an injured one the week before, maybe the heat is killing them or they tangle with flocks of pelicans heading north!.  

Visited Cape Canaveral National Seashore, drove the whole park in a violent rainstorm, 4 inches of rain on the road, and hundreds and hundreds of dragonflys across our windsheild!   Got a Gator this week, we now run around the park checking campsites and meeting more people, met a couple from Three Fathom Harbour that live near Jimmy Flynn. Paul entertained them with Jimmy Flynn jokes one evening. Visited friends and played cards, had a great time, we all went to the DECK DOWN UNDER in Port Orange in memory of my brother-in-law Don Peeling, second annual such gathering. Trish has been suffering from fly bites, thanks to an evening spent outside, no more, company must come in to the A/C, after all it's free with the free electricity.