© Copyright 2011 | http://MyMobileAdventures.com | CLICK any photo for a larger view This is the final installment of my first field trip with the Florida Master Naturalist class (Coastal Systems Module). Last time, we explored a few critter encounters at Bowditch Point. Now we’re going to continue on our journey over the hill, through the dunes and onto the beach. The day was getting pretty warm, and a few of the plants had...
© Copyright 2010 MyMobileAdventures.com http://MyMobileAdventures.com Some more “messing around” with the macro focus on my Nokia N97. Man, I LOVE this phone These are TINY flowers on a plant found at Bowditch Point Regional Park on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The people we saw photographing these identified them merely as “heliotropium” so I had a tough time isolating it even with a bazillion books at my disposal. Finally found it at this site: www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx…...
© Copyright 2011 | http://MyMobileAdventures.com | CLICK any photo for a larger view This post will pick up where Wilderness At Bowditch Point left off. We’re on a field trip with my Florida Master Naturalist class (Coastal Systems Module), and we’ve got a really great guide named Roger Clark, from Lee County, Florida’s Conservation 20/20 program. After telling us about a few of the plants and trees that we found growing on the perimeter...
© Copyright 2011 Erin aka Tink *~*~* | http://MyMobileAdventures.com | CLICK any photo for a larger view For our first field trip, my Florida Master Naturalist class (Coastal Systems Module) went on a botanical exploration of a small wilderness located at the northern tip of Estero Island in the town of Fort Myers Beach, Lee County, Florida. This is Bowditch Point Regional Park, part of the Lee County park system. The site had been...
© Copyright 2011 Tink *~*~* http://MyMobileAdventures.com As previously mentioned, I’ve been attending classes for the Florida Master Naturalist program. The first module is Coastal Systems, for which I need to make a 3 minute presentation. I became inspired by way of indignation while reading about sea turtles and the conditions that can ensure their success in creating a nest – or else pretty much guarantee their failure. Since my turn to present won’t happen...
Yakitori duck, originally uploaded by Erin *~*~*. Hah! You thought that was what I ordered, didn’t you? Fooled ya
© Copyright 2011 Tink *~*~* | http://MyMobileAdventures.com Here are some more photos from our great ramble around the Edison-Ford Winter Estates here in Fort Myers, Southwest Florida. The place was lively with school tour groups, flowering trees and shrubs bursting into bloom, bees bumbling, water fowl foraging – and mangoes dropping out of the trees. I like that you’re encouraged to walk on the lawns, and that it’s not that perfectly manicured golf course...
© Copyright 2011 Tink *~*~* | http://MyMobileAdventures.com In observance of Earth Day, I took a stroll through the trails of the Calusa Nature Center, which is a local sanctuary here in the northeastern corner of Fort Myers, Florida. Most, if not all of the wildlife in captivity at the nature center has been injured in some way - they are either under rehab in preparation for release, or else they are permanent residents who...
![[VIDEO] Look, up in that tree – it’s “Woody”!](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/5486856594_f24910c2cb.jpg)
© Copyright 2011 Tink *~*~* http://MyMobileAdventures.com Week before last, I took a stroll deep into the swamp – the Six Mile Cypress Slough here in Fort Myers – and I heard a familiar sound. After looking around for a bit, I found him. He’s a pileated “Woody” woodpecker, with a ruby red crest on his head. Isn’t he beautiful? What a treat! Actually, I did even better than this – I got about a...
