Bubbles in the Bathtub

A few things I wanted to post during the week but I forgot the little cable to hook my digital camera up to my laptop. Vacation is over and I'm back home, so here's a little wrap up.

The pic above is a little gator we found in the surf, probably about 2 feet long. Seemed a bit bewildered. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior for alligators. Maybe someone else knows?

My wife ran off to call the conservancy in case they wanted to do anything about it. Lucy showed up in her PJs. Unfortunately I was not wise enough to snap a pic of that scene. She did mention that she had herd of gators turning up in the sure on previous occasions, but this was the first she had seen firsthand.

There was also a sea turtle nest right in front of the beach house we were staying in.

Quite cool as it gave me a chance to tell my daughter what it was and why it was there. She wanted to spend the rest of the vacation digging holes on the beach for the turtles to lay their eggs in :)

Speaking of which, the best part of the trip was the turtle walk we did with Lucy and the conservancy. We actually got to see a nesting loggerhead, my daughters first, and she got to stay up waaaaaay past her bedtime. But it's all she talked about for the next couple of days. She has seen turtles before, at a neat little cove in Hawaii, but she was probably too young to remember.

In any case, we're back and I feel refreshed if not well rested. It always seems to take a few days to recover from a vacation. Too bad they almost always have to end with a really long day of travel...