{"id":1207,"date":"2009-12-13T19:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T00:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-12-13T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T00:56:23","slug":"western-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"Western Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1208\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=1208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1208\" title=\"DSC05156\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05156-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Morgane looks for shark's teeth.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05156-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05156-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgane looks for shark&#39;s teeth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1212\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1212\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=1212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1212\" title=\"DSC05151\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05151-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The birds watch over the fishermen.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05151-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05151-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The birds watch over the fishermen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We stopped at a state park near Englewood Beach where we heard we might find shark&#8217;s teeth. There were lots of big herons hanging around the people fishing from the beach. We met a nice lady with a special scooper for taking shells and other stuff out of the water and she helped us find our first teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The black shark&#8217;s teeth are prehistoric. The white ones are more recent. Sharks lose a lot of teeth &#8211; that&#8217;s why there are so many around. By early afternoon, Morgane was an experienced tooth finder. We have a nice bag of them to bring home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1209\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1209\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=1209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1209\" title=\"DSC05172\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05172-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The tortoise who surprised me.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05172-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05172-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tortoise who surprised me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I went for a walk on my own to the point and on the way was surprised to find a tortoise on the path. At the point, there were some people who had come by boat and they were watching three wild dolphins.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1210\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1210\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=1210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1210\" title=\"DSC05176\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05176-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Walking to the point.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05176-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05176-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking to the point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1211\" href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?attachment_id=1211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1211\" title=\"DSC05180\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05180-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Wild dolphin\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05180-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05180-1024x656.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild dolphin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We left the park around two and headed to St. Petersburg where there was a gathering of VW van owners. We spent a great evening with them playing glow-in-the-dark frisbee and even glow-in-the-dark petanque (bocce). They let us stay for the potluck dinner even though we came with empty hands and they found a spot for us to park as well. The vans were beautiful &#8211; one was from 1964! There were also a couple of little girls for Morgane to play with.<\/p>\n<p>We left this morning, glad to have met our first live (not on-line) VW group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped at a state park near Englewood Beach where we heard we might find shark&#8217;s teeth. There were lots of big herons hanging around the people fishing from the beach. We met a nice lady with a special scooper for taking shells and other stuff out of the water and she helped us find &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=1207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Western Florida&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}