Day 5 – 13th May 2015 – Merritt Island, Florida

Sorry, I know this is a bit late, but it’s been a long day. I will post the pictures for today, tomorrow, so check back, as it’s too late to fiddle with the phone, especially as I’m eating my salad dinner as well.
Once again didn’t sleep well! Left here about 7 and headed over to Cape Canaveral to cap the space shuttle munzee garden. This took about 3 hours to accomplish and I did it all from the comfort of the air conditioned car. I would drive, park, cap the munzees within the 300 ft circle and then move on. Popped in for another chat with Barb in the geocaching store and returned the puppies to my kennel.
From there drove over to Canaveral Cove as Barb had said there were often manatees at the lock there. However the lock was closed for construction work! So munzeed instead, lol. It seemed the perfect time for lunch so had a steamed seafood platter at Rusty’s. Very nice, cocktail sauce here is tomato+horseradish, an interesting combination, and of course the salad side comes out before the main dish!
Started to wend my way back to the motel via a couple of parks. Lots of squirrels, lots more of those great lizards and an osprey nest dripping with tilandsia like the trees. Pelicans here are brown and finger mullet (smallish fish) swim around in circles. I watched a small shoal of them for ages. They would briefly swim in a straight line, then the leader turned them all into a circle. Some would leave and others join in, then one would swim off followed by the others and then another circle. It was fascinating stuff! Once back at the motel realised that I had got a bit sunburnt I hadn’t thought I’d been out in it all that long, but it was overcast a lot, so that probably didn’t help. After a little computer munzee, I then headed out to the streets around the motel, and of course, got a little carried away, so got back here about 9.30. Shower (done), dinner (eaten), blog (almost finished) and bed (very soon).

IMG_0046 Great spiderIMG_0047  Canaveral CoveIMG_0052 Brown pelicanIMG_0063 Lizard pole dancingIMG_0068 Tight rope squirrelIMG_0070Osprey