couple, married 58 years. The other couple along have
been married 52 years. The volunteers really knew
their stuff. This is their fifth year here. The
first thing they showed us was a closed circuit tv
picture of a barn owl nesting with two young in a
crevice in a storage shed at the park headquarters.
Through the morning we saw sandhill cranes, mottled
ducks, white faced ibis, savannah sparrow, caspian
tern and lesser yellowlegs. The guides had been in the
Everglades doing bird walks for the national park for
ten years before coming here. They were told to stop
doing the bird walks so that there would be complaints
from campers which would, hopefully, put pressure on
the higher-ups to increase funding.
In the afternoon I went for a short paddle to an
island to see white pelicans. Then an enormous
thunder cloud appeared. We had a little rain, lots of
hail south of us. As soon as the front passed the
wind came up and it's still blowing strongly. I went
into town and did laundry.
Realized some time last night that I have been
freaking out about the drop in the stock market and
the consequent drop in my own asset picture. Trying
to get a grip now. We used to joke about my father
that he was only happy when he had something to worry
about. I seem also to need to find something to worry
about but it doesn't make me happy. Kathleen Ready
suggested I start meditating again. Paddling seems to
help.
Met a young couple from Anchorage who work there from
April to September and travel the rest of the time.
They live in their RV all the time.
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