LAMORES RECREATIONAL WIZARD travel blog

Great Blue Heron?

ALLIGATOR!!!!

White Tail Deer

Entrance at Paynes Prairie State Preserve

This was a great place for bird sighting's

Site 18 at Paynes Prairie

Dorothy changing the locks on the compartment doors

How many more locks are there?

Spider at the park --- There were a lot of these

Tadpole in the lake

Dan

Berries on the trail to the Visitor Center

Dan going to the Visitor Center

Rear look out from Visitor Center

Do I hear something around the corner?

View of the Observation Tower

View of the prairie from the Observation Tower

A view of Wauberg Lake

Sunset at Wauberg Lake

Another beautiful sunset at Wauberg Lake

Path to the playground

Playground area

Squirrel near the playground & picnic pavillion

Dorothy...Watch out for the snake in the road!

I stayed in the truck while, Dorothy got out & took these...

WHAT!? ----- What do you mean no swiming. It's HOT out here...

Do you think someone's trying to tell us something? Another sign about...

Our first alligator sighting

OK! Perhaps that "taking a dip" idea wasn't that great after all.

YEP! I think I'll skip that whole idea.

I'm not even hot anymore. In fact there's a cool breeze right...

I think I'm being watched

Dorothy taking photo of the alligators

Dorothy pointing out where there are even more alligators.

YEP -- MORE ALLIGATORS!

Do you see the baby gator?

How about now?

Now I know you can

View of a trail

Look at that tree

Another trail

I believe this is a Great Blue Heron

Dorothy taking photo of Great Blue Heron

Another great shot.

HEY! What are you doing with that camera?

NOW LOOK! I moved over here so you would stop doing that.

OK! Time to leave this joint since you wont stop taking my...

Big Bananna Spider -- Good thing Michael & Austin weren't on this...

Hey guys- what kind of bird is this?

Any ideas?

I'm still waiting for a answer.

Looking in the truck mirror

I look good, don't I

Hey check it out! A White Tail Deer sighting!

Not bad for how difficult it was to photograph these guys.

A beautiful sunset

Bother!! .... We"ll at least she made it home.

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ALLIGATORS!

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Great Blue Heron

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UFO BIRD

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Deer Sighting!

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Our last few trips have gone without mishap. So Murphy's Law decided it was time to kick in and make up for lost time!!

Upon arriving, we found out that we lost our 50 to 30 amp conversion cord. No problem. We'll just head into town and pick one up...."YEAH RIGHT".

No luck at:

Walmart (Gainesville)

Lowes (Gainesville)

Home Depot (Ocala)

Walmart Super Center (Ocala)

Petro Truck Stop (they didn't even have a simple extension cord!)

The following morning, after spending the night with no A/C.

We head to Ocala to a RV supply store, only to find ourselves in GAINESVILLE (Yes, Ocala is the opposite way).

We did finally get our electric hooked up , so smooth sailing...... right?

No another mishap was headed our way (or was it 2).

While Dorothy was parking the truck, she was pulling in and got too close to the Site sign & gouged the side of the truck!!!

Then heading home---- "as if we hadn't had enough already"--- strange noises started coming from the truck so we had the debate if we should pull off the road....luckily we made it to the storage facility, only to find out that the water pump had failed.

Even with all the mishaps, the park was great and animal sightings were numerous. To make things even better they were captured on photos and video also.

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