Canaveral Area

Drove from Talbot Island to Melbourne (just south of Cape Canaveral).  Stopped over in St Augustine for the afternoon just to walk around Old Town.  St Augustine is the oldest surviving colonial town in the US and the home of various famous Spanish Pirates.  The streets are small and the Funmobile is big...

Turns out this is Motorcycle Week in Daytona (a little down the road).  A little difficult to tell the dressed up pirates from the not so dressed up Hell's Angels.  Hard to say who's more vicious looking.

Spent the today at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge which was decidedly more placid.  (OK, I'm breaking the previously mentioned rule about one day per post.  No way am I going to post every night.  That's way too much work.  So I'll just batch the posts.)

Merritt Island is actually the same island that Cape Canaveral is on.  Mostly marsh and swamp (and minefields if you go the wrong way).   Most people would say, "Why would you drive 3,000 miles to walk in a marsh?"  I would reply, "Because there was snow up to our butts when we left Downers."

An also because we got to see a Great Blue Heron catch and devour a 3 foot long snake.  Val REALLY enjoyed that because it was 50 yards away and the snake got ate.

Feral Hogs (Look like plain old pigs to me.) 

I'm SURE the train stops here.

Off in the distance is Space Shuttle "Vehicle Assembly Building", the largest single story building in the world at 526 feet high.  (How would you change the light bulbs?)

Good night from Melbourne

Brad & Val