Subtropical Florida and things we do

The subtropical Florida starts approximately on a line across from Tampa to Melbourne. We are spending most of our time about 100 miles south of the line. It's considerably warmer down here than the northern half of the state, most days it gets into the 80's. After a month here we have adapted to a leisurely pace. We are in the middle of an agricultural area that grows sugar cane and citrus fruits. The town Clewston to the east of us calls itself the sweetest town in Florida due to the sugar cane. To the west is LaBelle, mostly citrus there. It seems the majority of people are Hispanic who work the farms and factories. We leave our spot on the river about every 3 days or so to shop and have lunch in either town, fun to people watch and shop the isles of Hispanic food items, our friend Martha picked up some guava paste that she slices to put on crackers for snacks, quite good.

Anyway, some of the things we do besides read, bicycle, soak up the nice weather and have an evening snack with friends are:

Frisbee, a challenge making this video, camera in left hand and throwing frisbee with right




Nita with laundry bag heading into laundry and library. The campers leave the books they have read here and pick up ones others have left, nice deal.




Some of our neighbors have strange pets, cats, dogs, birds and this couple from NC a lion and cub. Nita is unafraid of feeding the big cat, how about the nice touch of the leashes and water bowl for them.




Watching the boats coming thru the lock




Jack and Martha at sunset after a evening snack with us.
Tomorrow we take off for several days on the gulf beach at Fort Desoto just south of St Petersburg. We will miss Jack and Martha as they are departing tomorrow for Alabama, will catch up with them next winter.
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