It was another beautiful day in sunny Florida. We had a nice relaxing morning before heading off for Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve. It took us about 45 minutes to get there from Pine Island. Along the way we stopped at Chik-fil-a to get sandwiches which we ate at the picnic area at the Slough. Four years ago we had taken the 1.2 mile boardwalk and really enjoyed it. This time we thought we would take the volunteer guided tour. There were 11 of us in the group which took off at 1:30. The guide pointed out lots of vegetation, a hawk nest, but mostly concentrated on the flora. We saw some folks ahead looking carefully off the boardwalk. I got up there in time to see an otter swimming away.
After the tour was finished, Bill and I went back to see the part of the boardwalk we had missed. We ended up seeing a black-crowned night heron, lots of white ibis (some of whom were splashing and bathing), an alligator with what looked to be a fresh wound on its tail, giant egrets. It is such a pretty walk. We finished up about 4 and headed back to Pine Island.
We stopped at Home Depot and finally found some floor registers to replace a couple of broken ones in the RV. We really have looked all over for them and were thrilled to find these. We also stopped at the grocery to pick up a few items.
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