Ringling Brothers Museum and Ca D'Zan

Another neat stop on the trip was this museum and mansion, in Sarasota.  We stayed in a motel across the road.   We weren't sure if we could spend an entire day here, but we actually missed most of the 10 art galleries, which was really too bad.  

There is an amazing array of art, circus memorabilia, and artifacts...plus the beautiful specimen gardens filled with statuary.   Loved the banyan trees!

The mansion was immense, covered with glazed terracotta tiles....and granite.., lots of granite.  

There was lots of time and space to linger.  A great low-key kind of day.  Love that kind!!

Taste of Dunedin

One of our favourite non-nature outings of the trip was going to Dunedin for a Blue Jays Spring training game.  We headed to Florida Auto Exchange Park and took in a game on a very hot day.   Super memorable and good to see the Jays again!
And....we saw Greg Zaun and Jamie Campbell from Sportsnet.  They cover the Jays all season long. Neat to see them signing autographs too!

The Everglades - Day 3 - The Last Glimpse (really)

Occasionally, a single outing generates scads of photos.  Enough for its own post, even if it was only a part of a day. This sunset cruise out of Everglades City was such an outing :)  Only a handful of people on the boat. The weather was so warm, while it was still so very cold back home.  Just a light sweater was needed.   What a treat!

And the super bonus!? ...the dolphins playing in our wake.
And the American white pelicans on this little key....in the Gulf of Mexico.   The second largest land bird in North America.  The largest is the California Condor. 

Sometimes Plan B is the sweetest.