Travel with Tribbles: Skunk in a ball, umbrella dog and Devils Gut

We are presently residing at Jonathan Dickinson state park located just south of Hobe Sound. The intracoastal waterway bounds the eastern side of the park and across the waterway lies Jupiter Island, home of the rich and famous, were told Greg Norman and Tiger Woods have homes there. During WWII the park was Camp Murphy, a secret Army radar training facility with a population of over 6000 troops on these 11k acres.

We visited the the Hobe Sound Nature center and took a ranger led tour of the scrub dunes and intracoastal waterway. They have a museum and the star is a Spotted Skunk in a plastic ball that speedily scoots around the museum wherever he wants to go, he makes it tough to get a good photo.

We have had some showers the last few days, a lady in the park walks her dog that carries an umbrella in case of rain, she says when it starts raining she has to wrestle it away from him.

In this are you see a lot of yellow/orange vines covering plants and trees. It is a leafless, parasitic, native species vine called Devils Guy or Love Vine. It doesn't harm the plants it grows on and is a beneficial cover for wildlife.