Monday, April 27, 2009

Rover visits the Gumbo Limbo Environmental Complex

In Boca Raton, where our friends live, they have a wonderful nature center.  It again had the sun and green for me, science for the hubby, and places to run for the wild man. It even had reptiles for Abbi and since she wasn’t with us I took lots of pictures. It was a stupendous day. 

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Did I mention places to run?

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Rover enjoyed it as well.

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A strangler fig on a palm.

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That is a snake skin on the left and interactive science games on the right.

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Enjoy the snake pictures Abbi, I did the best I could through glass.

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Did I mention places to run? He ran up and down this ramp for probably 20 minutes straight. Clint was at one end and I was at the other.  His shirt says “Hello my name is Trouble” and everybody who would see him would smile and comment.

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Clint and I took turns climbing the watch tower and admiring the view. Clint and Cae are at the bottom.

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Rover enjoyed the view.

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This was so funny to me- it is framed animal poop in the bathroom.

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And then we found the water…

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He had to keep tasting it because it was salty.

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They had a sand box.

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These are tanks with turtles and sea life.

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A sting ray coming up to say hi.

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The turtles were sun bathing.

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At last our little guy ran enough to wear himself out. Time for a nap and to go to Joel and Melissa’s

1 comment:

Kristin said...

Wow, looks like fun times. We haven't been to FL since Shayne was very young, even though Brian grew up down there. Caelun is getting SO big!

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