March 10, 2022

Well, another month has passed. Life is pretty chill here, so we barely notice the calendar moving along. Although, the weather has been all over the place- cold, windy, hot, muggy, rainy….but NO snow, so it’s just fine.

We are officially Florida residents now- for our legal domicile- it was easier than going all the way back to South Dakota in May to renew our driver’s licenses. Like our cool Conserve Wildlife Bear Plate?

Pickleball, trap shooting, walking the beaches…same ol’, same ol’.

Mergansers and Ibis are frequently just off our shore area; white and gray herons and egrets are plentiful, too and the stray eagle. Learned about Greater and Lesser Scaup from a birder at the beach.

Lizards are out in full force, so as we sauntered along a boardwalk on a hot and muggy day; the lizards gave us pause, although they don’t hang around long for a pic.

We also saw dozens of this creepy critter in the canal here- Sea Hare Slug. We showed this photo to two charter captains we know and they didn’t have a clue what it was.

There have been huge forest fires (and neighborhoods burned down and/or evacuated) in Panama City, as well as north and west of here. The fuel is standing dead pine trees from Hurricane Michael in 2018- THOUSANDS of standing dead trees! We are fine here, more humid and swampy along the very coast.
Heading slowly north the end of the month.

Moonrise on the right at sunset, and moonset on the left at sunrise.

And for those of you who can not get enough of beautiful sunsets: