Another warm sunny day today. Nice to have a few consecutive days of nice weather. Nancy and I went to the service at the First Presbyterian Church this morning, about a 10 minute walk from the marina. Big church (in my view), very friendly people. This afternoon we took the dinghy up to Orange River where there is a manetee park. Apparently the power plant across from the park discharges warm water which the manetee like, so in winter they congregate around the water discharge area. Nancy and Eddie are docked in such a way that they can't get their dinghy down, so we all went in our's. Someone had told us the park was about 4 miles up the Caloosahatchee River (the river running by Fort Myers) from here. It seemed like a long trip, but plesant to be out on the water in the small dinghy on suh a nice day. Did see lots of swirls in the water that were probably manetee, but all you can see of them is a nose when they come up to breathe. We did see flashes of a few, but not in time to take any pictures. The trip back was interesting. It was getting late, because we actually had gone 7.2 miles up the river and so it took longer than we had planned. As we came back, a little chopd eveloped on the water, plus we met several boats that made big wakes that then splashed into the dinghy. Nancy, Eddie and I were all quite wet, plus enough water slopped into the dinghy that Eddie had to use the little hand pump to pump us out. Got back to the marina just as the sun went down past the horizon. After a hot shower and a hot drink, everyone was as good as new.
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| Mangrove trees on the way into the Orange River |
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| A picture of a Manetee taken from the internet. Another name is the Sea Cow |
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| A settlement on the way up the Orange River |
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| Manetee at the entrance to the Orange River and the way to the Manetee Park |
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| The water was very calm |
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