One of the best things about living on a ranch in Florida is that occasionally we get to take an airboat ride. Usually it happens when we have out-of-town visitors and this week our daughter, Carina, and her husband, Brady, are visiting - plus our friend, Chris Davis, who just moved to Florida from Virginia came out for the ride. Dale Vaughn, air boat driver extraordinaire, gave us an AWESOMAZING ride to places we had never been before!
Everyone gets a pair of red earmuffs for protection due to the very LOUD noise from the airplane motor that spins the blade to move the flat-bottomed boat over water or land.
It was a beautiful day for a ride!
This flock of birds seemed to want to challenge us to arace as they flew alongside of us for quite awhile.
Dale knows all the places where the mama gators stay and took us to see some baby gators. This is a few week old baby gator's head (nose pointing left, eyeball in the middle) with his eye reflecting in the water. Dale told us that of the 2 dozen babies that were there, perhaps 2 would make it to adulthood due to predators like large birds, other gators, or turtles.
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