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| Sandhill Crane |
We moved to Mayport Naval Air Station near Jacksonville, FL on Thursday. Our trip from Clermont was short and uneventful. Mayport NAS has two FamCamps. The Pelican Roost is on the St. Johns River with the Atlantic Ocean within walking distance, and the other one – Osprey Cove is in a more wooded area near the golf course. Both have very nice and generous sites.
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| Ship passing by |
We are also keeping an eye on weather as we watch one storm after another devastate many states. We have kept a diligent watch over weather near our daughter’s home in Oklahoma. So far, the Lawton area has been spared and we hope it stays that way.
Sandy uploaded our Disney photos. There are a lot of them…..sorry about that! But it is a great way to keep our photos safe after all the disasters we have been seeing lately.
Before we left Clermont, we got some photos of the local Sandhill Cranes. We have never been around Sandhill Cranes. Big bird! Very big bird! And very protective. We had a family come by a few times.
Mama and papa would dig around looking for grubs to feed to their younger ones. Yea, not so little. They were as big as mommy and daddy! While they were near our site we watched a stray cat trying to sneak by the family. One of the parents would have none of that! It sounded the alarm to warn the others or the cat. Now the sound they make – it sounds like something out of Jurassic Park’s movie. A little prehistoric sounding if you know what we mean. It certainly got all of our cats’ attentions! It then confronted the poor cat with its wings out. If it was trying to look bigger, it was succeeding! The poor cat decided to take a different route through the wood’s underbrush.
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| Fence is 3 ft |
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| I'm the pretty one |
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| Waiting for mommy to feed me! |
