Monday, January 23, 2012

Jan 20-23 2012 Saint Joe’s Peninsula State Park, Florida

The drive thru Florida to get here took 5 hours to go 180 miles. Solid towns. High rise hotels and beach houses. But once we got to  Port Saint Joe, to the Peninsula State park it because wonderful.  8 miles of beach on both sides of the peninsula-wilderness preserve—no houses, only a campground. White sand beach, blue green water and hardly any one on the beach. 70’s and nice.

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bus in the campground. White sand,sea oats and blue water . The dunes are a very sensitive habitat. There is a rare type of mouse that lives there. Sea turtles lay eggs on the beaches. Tons of  shell fish live in the sea grass. Vegetation holds the sand in the dunes and protects the main land from storms. If you walk on the vegetation it kills it. You cannot walk on the dunes, only on the boardwalks over the dunes to the beach.

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8 miles of deserted beach, horse shoe crab

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John on the  beach, a surfing buffle head duck and sandpiper

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sand piper and gull, John relaxing on the beach after the 5 hour drive

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sunset and dramatic clouds

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sunset and sunset light on the beach

 

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John at the low point of Florida-sea level, and below sea level

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John took this very graceful shot of me in the ocean!, beams from heaven

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the giant jelly fish in the sky

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evening clouds

 

I was surprised to see that the main tree on the coast is pine trees, I would have thought palm trees

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