2015-2016 Living in South Florida!!!!

I started out making this post like most of my other travel posts.   But it got so LONG that I decided to start a whole new "South Florida" blog with a more traditional blogging style.  I edited this post with links to my new "South Florida" blog so it would be easier and faster to see specific places or things that we especially enjoyed in South Florida.  

  To check out my specific Florida events or places, click on the links below.  Some of the events or places will have multiple posts, some will just have one (be sure and click on the "older posts" link at the bottom right of the post):  

 

Our Apartment in Coral Springs, Florida

Biking around our neighborhood

Some of our trips to Deerfield Beach

Loxahatchee Federal Park

Cardinal games here in South Florida

Snorkeling at Red Reef Park

Some of our Food Trucks meals

Independence Day fireworks

Hugh Taylor Birch Park in Fort Lauderdale 

  
Tradewinds park

our rainy trip to Sanibel

our Summer weekend trip to Bahia Honda in the Keys

South Florida lightning

Some of our mini vacations to the various Wyndhams in Pompano

 

A walk along Ft. Lauderdale beach and dinner cruise on the Jungle Queen

3 Mountains Park in Broward and a Broward Heritage covered bridge

Butterfly World in Coral Springs 
     or see by date: 10/19/2015 ; 11/4/2015 ; 2/18/2016

 

Blowing Rocks State Park near Jupiter

Our mini Oct. trip to Orlando: Wine and Food Festival; Wyndham Bonnett Creek; Dixie Landings; Port Orleans
    

Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach--Lego exhibit

Flamingo Gardens in Davie

Gold Coast Railroad Museum and Fairchild Botanical Gardens in Miami 

Last minute cruise 

Hobie Island for city skyline photos for Coral Springs Camera Club

Old car show at Festival Flea Market and cool garden shop

The Everglades

Birding at Peaceful Waters Sanctuary in Wellington, South Florida  
     updated 1/29; 3/1

Birding at Green Cay Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County
     or check out my trips there by date:  1/29; 2/11; 2/29;  3/9; 4/14

Birding in Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach (about 4 miles from Green Cay Wetlands)
     or check out my trips there by date:  1/29; 2/6; 2/14 ; 2/26; 2/29; 3/9; 3/18; 3/21; 3/28; 4/8;  4/14; 4/22  ; 4/29

Fern Forest in Broward County

Tree Tops Park in Broward County

The Flagler Museum in West Palm Beach

Evergreen Cemetery in Ft. Lauderdale---historic cemetery on the "birding trail"

Cardinals Spring Training game in Jupiter!  

Spring trip to Naples, Sanibel, and Captiva 

Balearia ferry over to Grand Bahamas for the day 

 

( To check out my daily "South Florida" blog, click HERE )

 

There are over 50 different species of birds that call the sanctuary their home - See more at: http://www.southfloridafinds.com/park/fl/palm-beach/wellington/peaceful-waters-sanctuary.html#sthash.ikMBlrGQ.dpuf

There are over 50 different species of birds that call the sanctuary their home - See more at: http://www.southfloridafinds.com/park/fl/palm-beach/wellington/peaceful-waters-sanctuary.html#sthash.ikMBlrGQ.dpuf

There are over 50 different species of birds that call the sanctuary their home - See more at: http://www.southfloridafinds.com/park/fl/palm-beach/wellington/peaceful-waters-sanctuary.html#sthash.ikMBlrGQ.dpuf

2012 Nov. S Florida to visit the kids

 Lovin' that the kids have moved to S Florida!  Somewhere relatively close to go in winter that still feels like summer.  So whenever I get the chance to go, I'm there.

Here's how they decorate for Xmas in S. Florida.

love Deerfield beach

interesting restaurant that we forgot about when we moved out there.

heading down A1A

our Mexican food truck that we liked to go to.  Although it was about 35 minutes away from the kids' house.

Love how big the folliage gets in S Florida

Flamingo Gardens---a reciprocal garden with our Mo Botanical Gardens membership.

Lots of neat birds and criters here, too.

and botanicals

Thanksgiving 2012! 

The table is set.

a ride to South Beach

love the quirky buildings in S Beach

good restaurants all around their area, too.

more xmas decorations

and a cow

wonder if anyone has bought that swim suit to the left?!

more decorations

Love all the palm trees!!!

more weird decor

never got a cruise out of here yet.  But have done plenty out of Ft. Lauderdale

a xmas tree

 
natural toys for dogs---coconuts

 

 

 

 

on to Naples through Alligator Alley

stopping along the way

walking arund until we saw the signs "beware of panthers"

back to the road

they use to have a problem with alligators on the highway, so they put up a fence all along the way

Love the grackles and their cackling sound

where it actually looks like the Everglades

more beauty from the highway

xmas decorations in Naples

the Naples pier

a typical Naples house

and another

a little marina in Naples

sunset along the Gulf

Back to the East side and a fan boat ride in the Everglades

Swamp hen

a fan boat

and we're off

Back at the kids' house---ken installing the rivets for Hurricane door cover so the kids can get a break on their insurance cost

back to Flamingo Gardens

inside the little house at the gardens

the house

Angie being eaten by an alligator

just a few of the birds here

driving along A1A near Ft. Lauderdale

always shoring up the road from being washed out by the ocean

back to the kids' house

the side of their house.  Not sure why