Instead of beginning our drive back to Maryland on April
Fool’s Day as originally planned, we began a two week extension for our time
here in Florida. I was so happy that I felt like a kid at Christmas.
On this evening, 48 years ago, the best April Fool’s prank
was played on me when my second son, finally decided to make his appearance in
this world after being 19 days overdue. If he had just waited 1 ½ more hours,
he would not be an April Fool. He was gifted with a keen sense of humor that
has kept myself and others laughing.
We made a trip to Punta Gorda to look for some geocaches.
When we stopped for lunch at a fast food restaurant near an intersection with
I-75, we were exceeding grateful that we were not part of all the traffic traveling
north.
Unbeknown to us, at one of the geocache locations, a family
of 5 frogs had taken up residence. Three of them leaped out at us when we first
began searching. I’m not sure who jumped the farthest—us or the frogs. We must
have looked very silly if anyone had been around to see this spectacle.
Some geocache owners devise cute containers to hold their
logs and I liked this elf one we found hanging in a tree.
Another cache took us to a location where I saw a sign
posted for an Alligator Creek Salinity Barrier. I realize that there are lots
of government controls and restrictions involving the wildlife here in Florida
and especially so for alligators. I wondered what kind of cockamamie idea
someone had devised for the alligators that exist mainly in fresh water. I later
learned that the primary purpose of this structure is to prevent saltwater
encroachment, during high water events when the manually operated gates can be
opened to lower the Alligator Creek level to increase the storage capacity
upstream of the structure.
I saw Spanish Moss hanging on some tree trunks. Usually, I
see the moss draping from limbs of trees.
We especially enjoyed this day and look forward to 14 more
of them.
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