June 2017 ~ Here we are in October and I’m still sorting pictures from June. That was actually the last time we did much walking around the park and ponds so I’m sure there are many changes since Hurricane Irma paid a visit to the area in September. We were gone most of the summer…
Beyond the Back Yard
Welcome 2017
Welcome 2017 – I’d been struggling to find a way to be enthusiastic about the start of a new year when a friend emailed a link from Oceana’s site. Their post, Six Amazing New Fish Species Discovered in 2016 featured a fish I discovered off Lembata during one of our trips to Indonesia. Our photos and collected…
Goodbye 2016
Goodbye 2016. It could have been a wonderful year but November 8 ended that. I can’t even console myself by thinking about all the reasons I am fortunate (and with my family and friends I am indeed fortunate). Anthropogenic Climate Change is real and this country just elected a president who is surrounding himself with climate…
Road Trip – Azores
Road Trip – Azores! We spent the end of July and the first week of August in the Azores, an archipelago in the North Atlantic about 900 miles west of Portugal. We traveled to the island of Faial to survey fish for REEF (the Reef Environmental Education Foundation) but added a few days onto our trip…
July 2016
In July we made several trips out of town with family and friends, so we didn’t have a lot of time to wander around the yard or to make many walks through Earl Johnson Park (a.k.a., St. Augustine Road Fish Management Area.) Not that I would have been inclined to do it much – this…
June Around the Neighborhood
I haven’t been online much this summer – a decision to spend more time with friends and family has kept us on the road. I’m still a little behind but have a few photos from our time in June around the neighborhood. I’m still upset about the beautiful chickens we found roaming through the nearby…
Dung Beetles
Although they are here in Florida, the only dung beetle I’ve ever seen was rolling a ball of dung (presumably from my dog) across my patio. So, because I was told they are common there, one of the things I really wanted to see during our animal viewing safaris in South Africa, was dung beetles….