Day 175

Today, we left Orlando, FL for Myrtle Beach, SC. This is a long drive, so I slept most of the time. While awake in the car, I took a few photos of the sky, which looked great with the bright sun.

The straight lines across the sky are from plane exhaust. The more vertical ones are natural.

Went we got to Myrtle Beach, we changed for dinner into something nicer than traveling clothes and headed for the beach. We walked along the beach to our dinner destination.

This bee was dead in the sand.

We found 3 dead jellyfish. This one looked the most like a jellyfish.

This broken conch shell was among the thousands of broken shells that were left in huge piles on the shore. I can only assume that the tide brings in huge amounts of shells nightly and leaves them there as it goes out.

Since we are on the east coast, the sun rises over the water and sets across the land...unless you are farther down in Florida on it's west coast. I took this photo through the window of the hall way to our room. We were on the 19th floor. I'm not sure why the glow of the sun created a large blurred circle and a small concise circle, but it's very neat to see. Also, if you look closely, you can see rays radiating from the sun

Day 174

Today was a long day. We went to Disney Animal Kingdom and Disney Magic Kingdom. I took the most photos at the zoo, since it has the most animals and plants.

Bamboo

Palm

Duck floating on a small pond full of fish

Duck

Hippopotamus

Vulture

Meerkat 

Male gorilla with baby

Yellow flower petal on metal of swinging bridge

Silverback gorilla

Giraffe

Butterfly

Flower in butterfly garden

Komodo dragon

Giant flying fox bat

Flower buds in leaf pod

Huge bird

The world's largest pigeons. They were about the size of turkeys. This is a male and female making a nest. They are so used to people, from interacting with them in the aviary, that the male picked up nest material a few inches away from me.

Parrot maybe?

This might be a bird couple or an adult and junior bird.

Birdy belly

This anteater was taking a shower. It was scrubbing it's self and really enjoying the water. This was an unexpected sight.

Turtle

Pink flowering vine

After lunch, we went to the Magic Kingdom. By the time we had walked around for a few hours, I was exhausted. I didn't take a lot of photos, while we were there.

Sun rays through the clouds

After about an hour at the park, rain started pouring. After it had stopped, these white birds were standing on the canopies for vendors.

Yellow flower near the dock to go to Tom Sawyer's island.

Lizard

Rabbit

Pink rose

Sunset

Sunset from the boat headed back to the cars.

Day 173

Today we stayed at the hotel most of the day. We encountered a lot of animals.

The turtles were easier to see today.

There were lots of lizards around the hot tub. They weren't attracted by the water, but by the stacked rocks around the tub. They are all the same type of lizard, but different colors. We realized that this type of lizard changes colors.

After dinner, we walked around the hotel grounds to see what other neat things we could find.

This is a male and female duck. We didn't see any females yesterday, so she was new.

Palms

Purple flowers

These white birds were busily eating from the plants. I suspect there were insects or worms among the leaves.

Squirrel!