150 STEPS BUT WHO IS COUNTING

ROSEATE SPOONBILLS-BLACK POINT DRIVE TITUSVILLE,FL

AND OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE-BIRDING FESTIVAL-TITUSVILLE,FL

JONATHAN WOOD EXHIBIT -BIRDS OF PREY

RESTORED PRITCHARD HOUSE-TITUSVILLE,FL

BLOWING ROCKS DIAGRAM-JUPITER,FL

ST. GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH-TITUSVILLE,FL

NEWEST FLORIDA CONGRESSWOMAN

BLOWING ROCKS AT NATURE CONSERVANCY-JUPITER,FL

JUPITER LIGHTHOUSE WITH 150 STEPS

RESIDENT BLACK POINT DRIVE ALLIGATOR

BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF KSC LAUNCHES FROM TITUSVILLE

                  IT WAS A BLAST CLIMBING JACOB,S LADDER AT THE JUPITER LIGHTHOUSE IN FLORIDA ON A CLEAR 75 DEGREE DAY.  EACH STOP ALONG THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE WAS A BENCHMARK OF THE CLIMB AND A VIEWPOINT TO DECIDE WHETHER TO FORGE ON OR RETREAT BACK DOWN.  FORGE ON WE DID.  ALL 17 OF US FROM THE BIRDING FESTIVAL IN TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA 2 HOURS BY BUS AWAY.  WE HAD TRAVELED BY BUS FROM ONE END OF THE INDIAN RIVER LAGOON TO THE OTHER. 
                         WE HAD A BOXED LUNCH AT THE NATURE CONSERVANCY'S HAWLEY CENTER BACK PORCH IN JUPITER  NEAR THE OCEANSIDE HOMES OF SOME OF THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE IN AMERICA INCLUDING THE NOUVEAU RICHE ALAN JACKSON, TIGER WOODS AND THAT FORMER PENNSYLVANIA BARBER PERRY COMO.  THE NATURE CONSERVANCY DIRECTOR GAVE US A TOUR OF THE PROPERTY ALONG THE INDIAN RIVER AS GIGANTIC FISHING YACHTS ZOOMED BY.  A MANATEE AND CALF COULD BE SEEN IN THE CHANNEL.  THE NEWLY PLANTED MANGROVES MAY NOT SURVIVE BECAUSE THE BOAT WAKES HAVE CREATED SAND DUNES ALONG THE RIVER..   THE LOW DUNES ALSO PREVENT WATER FROM  REACHING THE INLAND PLANTS SO CULVERTS HAVE BEEN BUILT UNDER THE DUNES.
                           NEXT WE WENT TO THE OCEAN SIDE OF THE CONSERVANCY TO SEE THE BLOWING ROCKS.  THEY ARE A LOW SHELF OF ANASTASIA LIMESTONE ALONG THE SHORELINE WITH BLOW HOLES FOR THE SURF AT HIGH TIDE ON STORMY DAYS TO EXPEL WATER LIKE A GEYSER.  THE MOST FAMOUS BLOW HOLE LOST SOME OF ITS  ROCK DURING THE 2004 HURRICANES THAT HIT THIS PART OF FLORIDA.   FOR A WEEK OR TWO THE WHOLE ROCK FORMATION INCLUDING CISTERN LIKE ROCKS DOWN BELOW THE SURFACE WERE EXPOSED.  ITS DISPLAY AT HIGH TIDE IS NOT AS POWERFUL.  BUT THERE ARE BLOWING ROCKS DOWN FURTHER ON THE BEACH THAT LET IT RIP  AT HIGH TIDE.   SO WE SANG DINAH WON'T YOU BLOW BUT IT WAS LOW TIDE AND VERY CALM SO WE JUST SAW THE ROCK FORMATIONS.
                             MR. MCKNIGHT CHEERFULLY TOOK US UP THE LIGHTHOUSE STAIRS AND POINTED OUT PERRY COMO'S HOUSE WHEN WE REACHED THE TOP.  HE TOLD US THAT GENERAL MEADE WHO DEFEATED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AT GETTYSBURG DESIGNED THE LIGHTHOUSE AND MANY OTHER.  BUT THE SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZERS IN THE SUPPOSEDLY NEUTRAL STATE OF FLORIDA DID  NOT ALLOW THE LIGHT TO SHINE DURING THE WAR.
              WE LEARNED THAT ALL ORIGINAL FLORIDA NATIVE AMERICANS WERE ELIMINATED BY DISEASE AND MISTREATMENT BEFORE THE 18TH CENTURY.   BUT THE LIGHTHOUSE HAS EXAMPLES OF THEIR PALM FROND THATCHED ROOF SHELTERS ON THE PROPERTY.  THERE'S ALSO A SHOT GUN STYLE HOME USED UNTIL 2004 BY A FAMILY THAT GREW FERNS.  THEY WERE ONE OF THE BIGGEST FERN SUPPLIERS TO FLOWER SHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES AT ONE TIME.     A SHOTGUN HOME IS TWO OR THREE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER SO THAT A SHOTGUN BULLET INTO THE FRONT DOOR WOULD GO RIGHT OUT THE KITCHEN BACK DOOR.  THE BUS TO JUPITER  HAD LEFT TITUSVILLE AT 7:15am AND RETURNED TO TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA IN NORTH BREVRD COUNTY BY 4:30 pm AS THE BIRD FESTIVAL AT BREVARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE WAS CLOSING DOWN FOR THE YEAR.   OUR TOUR BY MS. ANN BIRCH OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY WAS WELL PLANNED,ENJOYABLE, INFORMATIVE AND HAD GOOD FOOD AND A FRIENDLY DRIVER WHO WAS FROM A FAMILY NATIVE TO FLORIDA SINCE 1834.  HE'D FORMERLY WORKED FOR THE STATE PARKS AND WAS A TITUSVILLE RESIDENT.
                  THE 14TH ANNUAL BIRDING FESTIVAL AT BCC IN TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA TOOK PLACE FROM JANUARY 26-JANUARY 30,2011.  THE TITUSVILLE ART LEAGUE HAD A SUPERB ART SHOW WITH PHOTOGRAPHY.PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES WITH A BIRDING THEME.  EACH DAY WAS FULL OF EXHIBITS AND LECTURES ABOUT BIRDS AND FLORIDA IN THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS.  NUMEROUS FIELD TRIPS MANY BEGINNING AT THE CRACK OF DAWN OR BEFORE WERE GIVEN BY EXPERTS TO THE NORTH BREVARD HOTSPOTS, DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, NEW SMYRNA BEACH, SALT LAKE CONSERVATION AREA,APOPKA WETLANDS, MERRIT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, THE BLACK POINT WILDLIFE DRIVE, AND CANVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE ADJOINING THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER LAUNCH FACILITIES IN TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA AND DOZENS OF MORE PLACES.    THE VIERA WETLANDS NEXT TO THE SANITATION FACILITIES IS VERY POPULAR FOR BIRDING.
                  ROZ FOSTER,THE TITUSVILLE HISTORIAN CONDUCTED A TOUR OF A CRACKER FARM ON ROUTE 46 IN TITUSVILLE/MIMS AREA IN THE MORNING AND AN AFTERNOON TOUR IN DOWNTOWN TITUSVILLE OF THE NEWLY RESTORED PRITCHARD HOUSE,ST.GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH,THE CASSONE DECORATORS STUDIO AND JEWELRY SHOP,THE NOW DEFUNCT TITUSVILLE TRAIN STATION AND THE TITUSVILLE PLAYHOUSE WHICH ALL DATE FROM THE LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY.  ROZ INFORMED US THAT AMTRAK IS PLANNING TO RESTORE  PASSENGER SERVICE TRAINS FROM JACKSONVILLE THROUGH TITUSVILLE AND OTHER BREVARD TOWNS TO MIAMI IF THEY RECEIVE SUFFICIENT FEDERAL.STATE AND COUNTY FUNDING.  TITUSVILLE HAS ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING ORIGINAL STATTIONS FROM THE 1920'S.
                   OUR NEW CONGRESSWOMAN ATTENDED THE TITUSVILLE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE ASTRONAUTS WHO DIED IN THE APOLLO 1,CHALLENGER AND COLUMBIA ACCIDENTS. HER PARENTS LIVE IN TITUSVILLE.  A  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER RETIRED LAUNCH MANAGER MR. SIECK GAVE A SPEECH ABOUT SPACE TRAVEL LAUNCHES FROM KSC.  THE TITUSVILLE RESIDENT ENDED WITH A QUOTE FROM AN ASTRONAUT WILLIE MCCOOL THE PILOT OF COLUMBIA WHO PERISHED AT RENTRY INTO THE ATMOSHPHERE 8 YEARS A GO ABOARD THE SHUTTLE.  
MCCOOL JUST LIKE THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS WHO IS AT THE INTERNATION AL SPACE STATION RIGHT NOW WATCHING A VIOLENT WORLD ROLL BY HAD GIVEN AN IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD.  

ROCKETS RED GLARE

         FLORIDA HAS MUCH TO OFFER BESIDES GIRLS GONE WILD, WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND BEACH BLANKET BINGO.  NOT ALL SENIORS ARE PLAYING SHUFFLEBOARD OR GOLF.  COME TO TITUSVILLE WHERE THE BIRDS ARE PLUS ROCKETS AND 25 MILES OF UNSPOILED SHORELINE.

EVOLUTION

                                DARWIN SAILED AROUND THE WORLD DOCUMENTING HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION.  MOST PEOPLE HAD NOT EVEN LEFT THEIR HOMETOWN AT THAT TIME.  STILL PEOPLE WITH EVERY MODERN TOOL OF RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY AT THEIR FINGERTIPS ON THE COMPUTER DENY DARWIN'S THEORY.
                                 OF COURSE GOD EXISTS.  IF GOD DIDN'T EXIST WE'D BE FORCED TO INVENT HIM.  TO BELIEVE EVERY WORD VERBATIM IN THE BIBLE IS LUDICROUS.  METHUSALAH LIVED 900 YEARS.  BEGATTING AT AGE 99 IS IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS YOU HAVE A SURROGATE MOTHER LIKE SARAH JESSICA PARKER,NICOLE KIDMAN OR SIR ELTON JOHN AND/OR IN VITRIO FERTILIZATION ETC.  

                                   SO BEGAT OR BEGONE AS THEY SAY AT MCSORLEYS PUB IN NYC NOW THAT THEY LET WOMEN IN.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN MOONGLOW

                         HE SAT IN HIS BLACK MERCEDES WAITING FOR THE FULL MOON TO RISE OVER THE MOON RIVER IN TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA.  I SAT IN MY WHITE MIATA IN THE NEXT PARKING SPACE WAITING FOR THE MOON RISE.  ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?  WE JUMPED OUT OF OUR CARS TO PHOTOGRAPH THE MOON AS IT APPEARED VERY LARGE OVER THE HORIZON NEAR THE EMPTY SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH PAD LIKE TWO AGING LOONEY TOONS.

                        THEN MR. ROMANCE RUSHED INTO PAUL'S SMOKEHOUSE TO AVOID THE CHILL IN THE AIR.  THE PREVIOUS NIGHT AT THE CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE IN TITUSVILLE,FLA WE OOHED AND AHED OVER THE SUNSET,WARM WEATHER ,BEACH BENCHES,PERFECT WAVES,BLUE AND PINK SKY AND A RIGHT WHALE SPOUTING WATER AND JUMPING STRAIGHT INTO THE AIR JUST AS THE 98 PERCENT FULL MOON ROSE OVER THE ATLANTIC BEFORE SUNSET.  THEN WE WENT TO CRACKERJACKS RESTAURANT ON THE FISHING PIER IN TITUSVILLE FOR CRABCAKES AND TO WATCH THE MOON OVER THE RIVER.  WE MET SHRIMPERS ON YHE PIER WITH LIGHT BULBS PLUGGED IN TO ATTRACT THE SHRIMP.   THEY DO IT EVERY NIGHT.  IT COSTS $6 TO PLUG IN THEIR LONG EXTENSION CORD LIGHTS.
                          SPEAKING OF PAUL'S SMOKEHOUSE RESTAURANT WHICH IS RIGHT ON THE RIVER IN TITUSVILLE.  I HAD TEN ROCK SHRIMP WHICH ARE ALOT LIKE ESCARGOT EXCEPT BIGGER -KIND OF A POOR MAN'S LOBSTER.  IT WS FINGERLICKING GOOD WITH TEXAS TOAST ON THE SIDE.  MR. ROMANCE HAD PAUL'S SMOKED MEATS=HAM.PORK AND BEEF PLUS BAKED BEANS AND FRENCH FRIES.  DELICIOUS.  BUT MR. ROMANCE BARELY TALKED AS HE SAT IN THE SEAT WITH THE BEST VIEW OF MOON RIVER.  HE THE KING OF BUFFETS  COULD BARELY EAT.  IT MUST HAVE BEEN MOONGLOW.

                          SO IT WAS A TALE OF TWO MOONS.  HE WOULDN'T GO THE THE OCEAN PLUS THE US GOVERNMENT CLOSES THE CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE JUST AS THE WINTER SUN SETS AND THE FULL MOON RISES.  I GUESS THEY ARE AS ROMANTIC AS MR. ROMANCE.  ACTUALLY THE US GOVERNMENT BESIDES NOT LETTING US VIEW THE MOON OVER THE OCEAN WILL NOT FLY US TO THE MOON AFTER THIS YEAR.  WE HAVE TO USE PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION.  THE JAPANESE ARE FLYING EQUIPMENT TO THE SPACE STATION AS WE SPEAK.  GOT TOYOTAS?

                         TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO DAYTONA WHERE THEY STILL LET YOU STAND BY THE OCEAN AT NIGHT.  UNFORTUNATELY WE WON'T SEE THE MOON AT 6:45, IT WILL PROBABLY BE TOO CLOUDY.    LAST NIGHT WAS PICTURE PERFECT.
                              SO I'LL TAKE ROMANCE
                               WHILE MY HEART IS OLD AND WILLING TO DANCE
                                  I'LL TAKE ROMANCE

                                          FLY ME TO THE MOON
                                          AND LET ME PLAY AMONG THE STARS
                                               SHOW ME WHAT IT FEELS TO BE ON JUPITER
                                                    AND MARS
                                                  BUT AS WE ALL KNOW- ESPECIALLY SINCE THE US                          WON'T                  LAND       THERE                     AGAIN:

                                                   IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON

                                                    APOLOGIES TO  GALILEO!

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CRAZED KILLERS

                 LOUGHNER WHO KILLED A NINE YEAR old girl in Tucson while trying to kill but only successfully shooting a hole through A CONGRESSWOMAN'S BRAIN  IS AS CRAZY AS THE SUICIDE TERRORISTS WHO FLEW PLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ETC..  THOSE TERRORISTS LIKE LOUGHNER HAD NO HOPE FOR THEIR FUTURE EXCEPT TO MAKE A MARK BY TAKING DOWN A HATED GOVERNMENT.  THE SEPTEMBER 11TH TERRORISTS WERE FUELED BY HATEFUL ANTI USA RHETORIC.  LOUGHNER WAS FUELED BY ANTI CONGRESSWOMAN RHETORIC.  GLOCKS KILL  AND SO DOES HATEFUL RHETORIC.
                     I SUPPOSE THE KORAN TOLD LOUGHNER TO KILL JUST LIKE THE 9/11 TERRORISTS.   BASICALLY KILLERS ARE CRAZY AND ANYONE WHO TAKES A GUN OR AN AIRPLANE TO KILL OTHERS IS A LUNATIC.  THEIR LUNACY IS FUELED BY HATEFUL POWER SEEKING POLITICIANS.  DOES THE NAME HITLER RING A BELL?

                  PREACH LOVE NOT WAR AS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DID OR MOHATMA GHANDI OR JESUS OR MOHAMMED OR BHUDDA.   ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

JETS WIN

WHEN YOU'RE A JET
YOU'RE A JET ALL THE WAY
FROM YOUR FIRST CIGARETTE
'TIL YOUR LAST DYING DAY

THE JETS BEAT THE PATS

AND DID A FLIP TO CELEBRATE

NY JETS FANS CHEER

1/11/11

MONUMENTAL
EH?

1/11/11

TUESDAY

       WE STAYED UP UNTIL 2 WATCHING THE  BCS TOSTITOS AUBURN VS OREGON GAME.  WE COULDN'T SLEEP WITH VISIONS OF THOSE YELLOW OREGON DUCK BOOTS IN OUR MIND.  OR MAYBE IT WAS THE SALSA AND TOSTITOS THAT KEPT US UP.  OR MAYBE THE WORD FIESTA BOWL AND TOSTITOS IN A COUNTRY THAT IS HYPER ABOUT CURBING THE USE OF SPANISH IN THE USA.  OR MAYBE IT WAS THE THOUGHT OF THE CONGRESSWOMAN FROM TUCSON BEING SHOT DOWN AT A SHOPPING MALL.  OR CAM NEWTON BEING CASTIGATED FROM TAKING A PIECE OF THE NCAA FINANCIAL PIE.  OR JUST THE HYPOCRISY OF A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.   OR THE LACK OF COMMAS AND SENTENCES IN THIS BLOG.

        ANYWAY THE SOUTH WON.  SO DIXIE FANS ARE ECSTATIC EVEN WITH SNOW ON THE ATLANTA RUNWAY.   MEXICO DID NOT INVADE AT THE BORDER.  SO THE CHAMPIONSHIP HAPPENED IN A STATE THAT WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY UNTIL IT MEANT NO FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS WOULD BE PLAYED  THERE- FOR EXAMPLE THE SUPER BOWL.

ASTRONAUT'S CONGRESSWOMAN WIFE SHOT IN ARIZONA WHILE HIS TWIN BROTHER IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BUT THE BCS GAME WENT ON

            IN THE MORNING I THOUGHT IT WAS MONDAY.   IT'S TUESDAY.  EARTH TO YANKE.  THE BEST TEAM WON  WITH THE BEST QUARTERBACK WHO WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SHOW HIS STUFF.   MAYBE WHEN HE'S A PAID PERFORMER IN THE NFL, THE POWERS THAT BE WILL LET HIM SCORE.   IMAGE IS EVERYTHING.  LET'S BE POLITICALLY CORRECT EVEN IN A STATE WHERE THEY GUN DOWN AN ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, ARE HESITANT TO RECOGNIZE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.(also gunned down)  AND WHERE TERRORISTS SPEAKING SPANISH MUST BE KEPT FROM CROSSING THE BORDER TO WORK IN THE TOSTITOS FACTORY OR PICK TOMATOES FOR THE SALSA.

GUTLESS GUNTOTERS

                     I WENT OUT TODAY WITHOUT A GUN.  I GO OUT EVERY DAY WITHOUT TOTING A PISTOL,SHOTGUN,ASSAULT RIFLE OR WEAPON OF ANY KIND.  I USED TO HAVE MACE BECAUSE I WALK IN THE WOODS ALONE.  I WENT TO SEE THEN GOVERNOR JEB BUSH AT THE MELBOURNE,FLORIDA CITY HALL.  I  ASSUMED WE'D BE CHECKED FOR WEAPONS,SO I HID MY MACE IN A TREE OUTSIDE THE CITY HALL.  WE WERE NEVER CHECKED FOR WEAPONS.  HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE WEAPON DETECTORS.  WHY WE WEREN'T CHECKED AT CITY HALL,I'LL NEVER KNOW.  I LEFT THAT MACE IN THE TREE OUTSIDE CITY HALL.  I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT IT.  JEB BUSH WAS A CHARMER EVEN THOUGH I DISAGREE WITH EVERY POLITICAL POSITION HE HOLDS.  MAYBE THAT'S WHY I FORGOT.
                    THE AVERAGE CITIZEN IN FLORIDA DOES NOT NEED WEAPONS UNLESS HE ENCOUNTERS AN ALLIGATOR.  THE WILD WEST  AND EARLY AMERICA ARE A THING OF THE PAST.  WE HAVE POLICE NOW.  POLITICIANS SHOULD HAVE SECURITY AT PUBLIC MEETINGS.
                     THE MENTALLY ILL SHOULD BE GIVEN HELP,MEDICINE AND COUNSELING.  IF A PERSON IS EVALUATED AND DETERMINED TO EXHIBIT BEHAVIOR INAPPROPRIATE TO ATTEND PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN ARIZONA ,HOW CAN HE BE QUALIFIED TO BUY A GUN AND 30 BULLET MAGAZINE FOR IT?

                   PROTECT OUR POLITICIANS.  LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOULD BE AT EVERY RALLY ESPECIALLY FOR THE CONGRESS,GOVERNOR OR PRESIDENT.  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BRADY BILL?

NO CAMERA

          MY PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHER JOHN CUNNINGHAM TOLD OUR CLASS:  "ALWAYS CARRY YOUR CAMERA WHEREVER YOU GO.  YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'LL MEET GOD."  I DIDN'T MEET GOD YESTERDAY BUT THERE WERE NUMEROUS WHITE PELICANS,IBISES,WOOD STORKS AND A SPLASH OF ROSEATE SPOONBILLS CONGREGATED IN THE REMAINING MUD FLATS ALONG THE SEVEN MILE BLACK POINT WILDLIFE DRIVE IN THE MERRITT ISLAND WILDLIFE PRESERVE NEAR TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA.  SO WITHOUT A CAMERA,IT'S A FISH TALE.  THERE' LITTLE WATER BECAUSE IT'S CONTROLLED BY DIKES AND THERE'S BEEN A DROUGHT FOR MONTHS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA..  THE WEATHER WAS WARM AND OVERCAST WITH A HEAVENLY LIGHT AND GOLDEN GLOW EMITTING FROM THE GRAY STATUS CLOUDS.  I DROVE ON IN MY MIATA WITH AC ON AND TOP UP WISHING I'D LISTENED TO CUNNINGHAM WHO NEVER MARRIED, HAD A GIRLFRIEND IN CUBA, WAS BEING MONITORED BY THE CIA AND ANNOUNCED TO THE CLASS THAT HE WASN'T A SOCIALIST.  HE WAS TOO FAR LEFT OF THAT MONIKER.
               I DIDN'T STOP FOR THE SEA OF WHITE BIRDS OF EVERY TYPE AND SIZE, I HEADED FOR THE CRUIKSHANK TRAIL AT HE END OF THE BLACKPOINT DRIVE TO HIKE AT 9AM  WITH THE SPACE COAST CHAPTER OF THE FLORIDA TRAILS FOR FOUR MILES THROUGH A GRASSY PATH NEAR THE MOSQUITO LAGOON IN A SEMI-CIRCLE BACK TO THE TRAIL HEAD.  WE SAW NO BIRDS PRACTICALLY UNLESS ONE SPOONBILL,ONE IBIS, A RAIL AND AN ANAHINGA DRYING IT'S WINGS PERCHED ON A BRANCH EXCITES YOU.  BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.  THERE WERE 20 HIKERS MANY FROM THE MELBOURNE AREA.  ALL WERE SENIOR CITIZENS IN THEIR 60' OR 70'S.  THERE WERE QUITE A FEW MEN.   THE TRAIL WAS OPEN AND PEACEFUL WITH VISTAS OF PONDS, LAGOONS AND SAWTOOTH PALMEETO TREES.    MILES AWAY IN THE DISTANCE OVER THE SEA OF GRASS THE GIANT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING WAS VISIBLE.  INSIDE THE DISCOVERY SPACE SHUTTLE WAS BEING REPAIRED FOR ITS LAST VOYAGE TO THE SPACE STATION IN FEBRUARY.  OTHER THAN THAT 20 STORY SIZE BUILDING,IT WAS NATURE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOKED EXCEPT FOR A CHAIN OF SENIOR CITIZEN HIKERS.  GOD WAS THERE INDUBITABLY.  IT'S THE KIND OF PLACE, GOD WOULD LIKE.  HE CREATED IT AND THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE SERVICE WITH OUR TAX MONEY IS PRESERVING IT .  SO THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS;"WHEN CUNNINGHAM SPEAKS,LISTEN."

.CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE ALLIGATOR SEEN ALONG BIO LAB TRAIL IN THE NATIONAL PARK LAST YEAR-USUALLY THERE ARE 20 0R MORE