Twenty more days.
Well, we turned our calendar page to April and this is my
son’s birthday. Yes, he truly is an April Fool because he was born 19 days
overdue—still the biggest and best prank played on me.
We had not done any geocaching while my son, Andy (not
the April Fool), and his family were visiting with us so we took a trip to Naples
to look for a few more caches.
At Naples Bay, we read about an oyster reef restoration
project. Since 1950, the bay has lost 90% of its sea grass beds, 80% of its
oyster reefs, and 70% of its mangrove fringe. A Golden Gate Canal dredged and
connected to the Golden River in the 1960’s dumps an average of twenty million
gallons of freshwater into Naples Bay every day. This excess of freshwater
along with untreated storm water runoff and residential development has caused
a loss of habitat.
We have noted that a great number of park benches in this
area have plaques that denoted they have been donated in honor or in memory of
someone. We saw this sign at the base of one such bench in the Naples Landing
Park that we certainly can identify with.
Flowers have been blooming here ever since we arrived in
early January. These are some that I saw near the courthouse
We stopped to watch some workers planting a large palm
tree.
We found a cache by a manmade waterfalls which was quite
refreshing to see in the middle of town.
One cache was located in a marsh and was not hard to find
today. In the rainy season people most likely will get their feet wet because it
requires crossing to a small island. It was nice and dry for us and we tried to
navigate around the ducks that were resting there without disturbing them.
We discovered a very cute nicely crafted cache container.
Back at the condo, we enjoyed another gorgeous sunset. I
sure am going to miss this everyday sight when we get back home.
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