Fort Myers / Naples/ Everglades

Sanibel island.......west south florida

crow interaction

Today's bike.....ride..../ search for key

My t shirt from Butterfly World....love it.

Butterfly in the park today.....

This racoon was hurt....couldn't move a leg. it stinked and was full of flies.....when I passed by him he finally was able to move, I guess the adrenaline helped. =( sad..there was no blood. I don't know what happened.

An iguana. in the wild. huge one, gorgeous too.

A squirl easting a piece of my protein chocolate bar. he was very cute. at some point he climbed a tree....a palm tree and was upside down, eating it. squirls are so cute.

I'm kind of nervous today, because I lost the car key yesterday in the bike ride. It was on my pocket.... It's gone though. The new one will be ready in 2 days, and it will be expensive too. I don't know how it happened. ugh.

At least the iguana was exciting.

Cookies and bike ride

These people were feeding bread to the fish =)
we arrived at the same time at this bridge.
They talked to me, as people do here. I'm getting more used to it.
"hello there, how's your day going? We're here to feed bread to the fish" -he said, getting off his bike and feeding a duck some bread.

i said "Hi! Great, I'm taking some pictures, I'll watch for a bit"

They went by the water to feed fish, and I took the picture. Then I left to ride the bike a bit longer. I got a bit lost so decided to come back the same way, and on the way back, they were still there.

I asked them if they'd ever seen an aligator around there, he said he did, a baby one.

He said he fed some fish and then moved to another side, and about 50 fish followed him in the water :D

there was a crow there too getting some bread, and I told them about the crow I fed, getting the bread wet before he swallowed, and as I said that the crow was doing the same thing.
Crows are scarily smart. They use tools to open stuff.. mail boxes and things. to get coins and things that shine.
They asked my name and where i'm from. They were really nice and sort of reminded me of people on dope relaxed and peace-and-love, in a transcendent way.
I told them I'm from Portugal and the man said "There is one country on this "hemisphere" that speaks portuguese too, do you know which one?" :)
I knew he meant brazil. they were amusing. She asked if I like it in florida. And asked "the weather in portugal is alot like here, right?" We chatted a bit.
She said she liked my accent . I was surprised and pleased. I wonder what my accent is like. It's definatly not "portuguese" I hope.
And he couldn't figure out how to say my name so he said I'm the pretty girl with blue eyes. =)
they were kind of cartoonish. Simple and free. Makes me wonder what kind of lifes they have. I didn't ask their names. I don't think they were a couple or father-daughter. some kind of relatives. I'm curious about people.
They seemed out of context in that neighbourhood. they were pretty simple. This park is in the million dollar neighbourhood.

"Well, nice meeting you, have fun"- I said as I got on the bike.

"Hey nice meeting you too, bye"

Florida florida

(The tiny bird I mention on the post below is actutally on this photo, not the other one)

links to videos of butterfly world

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-3ArFLPjXnQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zVc2vTwmAbA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xd3aA5odXzc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-a7NN9JFdj4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qlVPvrtfCbs

Or better yet..... http://youtube.com/user/peixa79

some videos are missing after I just posted them, I quit trying to figure out what's happening. Maybe they will be back. in either case, there are some available now. =) they are gorgeous.
you can hear my voice saying "Uau" once in a while.

Butterfly World

notice the tiny bird flying? can't remember it's name in english. beija-flor. the black balls on that tree are jabuticabas, a brazilian fruit. I ate loads of them, delicious. people were staring. Some asked if they taste like cherries, but didn't try them. =)

lower, banana halves, the butterflies like them.

see? these butterflyes are gorgeous turquoise blue on the inside of the wings. I made videos of that.

Link to video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xp7J5A9vzKE

there it is.
youtube didn't share the video to the blog, so this will have to do. =)
I hope to get better videos today. that one sucked. can anyone teach me how to edit a video? cut parts of it?

I think I can do it in the camera.. ugh. technology is not my friend.

Park

Hopefully a video will be uploaded soon of me interacting with a crow.. More videos to come soon, I hope =)

Special for Ben

This one looked so much better on the camera preview...

Rainy day, boring day =) .....

That vintage car is right in front of where I'm at. It's very cool.

The pics are my attempt of using this venus transit to the extreme. I know my fans will apreciate it. (hahhaha)