Vacation on US Gulf Coast, October 2013
This trip was mainly to see critters. It was also
my first trip to the Gulf Coast in 50 years.
- At Homosassa Springs State Park, a
manatee munches its free lunch of romain lettuce
while Florida's only
citizen hippo,
Lu, awaits his own meal.
- Susie tries to sell me one slightly used
SR-71
Blackbird
but declines to offer me the
Mother Of All Bombs
(MOAB),
which is what I came to the Air Force Armaments Museum to acquire.
- Preparing to board a ferry to cross Mobile Bay, we watch
butterflies hanging out at Fort Morgan.
- Cold-blooded
killers
at Gulf Coast Gator Ranch dream of their next victims.
- Young
cranes
are on the move at New Orleans' Audubon Zoo while
parakeets
congregate at the Aquarium of the Americas.
