Day 17 – 30 September 2017 – Tampa to Fort Lauderdale

Once again had a great breakfast and then headed out to a car park with prize wheel munzees. As these are all physicals, I walked around, after parking on the wrong side. Not that that really mattered, I just walked across the grass, lol. From there I went back to Lettuce Lake Park and the munzee event Marie, Tim, Carol and Dave had organised. It was an early Halloween event, so lots of scary doughnuts with teeth and eyes, a long, thin cinnamon something with red icing looking like intestines, spiders scattered around the place, a big pumpkin on the table, all good fun. The event munzees were spiders so had a trail of 50 of them through the park. Such a lovely park, even if very, very sticky as there had been more rain overnight. So capped a lot, talked a lot and had fun!

Then a 426 km drive south to Fort Lauderdale. Quite a few changes of vegetation and quite a few vultures. Some sitting in trees and some obviously scavenging something on the roadside.

Had 2 really heavy rain showers to drive through, so heavy it was difficult to see the road let alone the car in front, yet there were still those who zoomed past in the outside lane!

The GPS decided to sulk, she didn’t want to talk to me at all today, maybe because I told her off last night for not working, LOL. Anyway the map itself worked, but she got me to do a u turn to get to the hotel and nothing was there, just the local cemetery. I used my phone GPS to get here, and was told by the parking man that it happens to everyone, the GPS always goes there! Don’t know why the phone one worked better! Anyway, had a lucky discovery, there is a Hertz return site right here in the same building, so decided I may as well drop off the car now as they have a complimentary shuttle to the cruise port. What unexpected good planning, LOL.

Lettuce Lake ParkSome great lichen  A xeric oak communityScary doughnuts, lol