Sorry I missed some of you when I stopped by but here are some pictures from my trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands!! Hope you enjoy them. I will hopefully get a chance to come stop by before I move to NH but it was great to see you!! xoxoxo
WOW...less then a month left of my excursion on St. Simons Island! I am still having a blast and loving every second of it! A couple of weeks ago I had an amazing outdoorsy group, and just had such a blast with them. Their trip consisted of canoing/kayaking in the Okefenokee Swamp one day, Cumberland the next and then a shark dissection. I can't believe I get paid to do these things! Ben came down and visited a couple weeks ago and it was awesome. It was a much needed visit and really lifted my spirits. Even got to do a little funnel caking up in Charleston S.C. Here are some pictures of the past couple of weeks! I'm gonna spend as much time doing everything I can around here before I leave. Heading to Hostel in the forest one of these days! P.S.- I got accepted to UNH for Grad school!!!!
Well last weekend was Easter weekend and my parents finally got down here to visit. Friday night we had a great dinner at Gypsy Cab in St. Augustine with some family and friends and then we were up super early on Saturday to head to Cumberland Island. We had a beautiful day weather wise and got a chance to see tons of horses which can be an all or none type of thing! Not to many birds but we did get to see a Clapper Rail which are pretty difficult to see. The shark tooth pit went well for me and eventually my dad found one!! 16 to 1!! That night we had a dinner at MoonDoggies the best pizza in the world and then called it an early night. Sunday took them to the Swamp didn't see to many gators but we did see a cottonmouth which is pictured below! Monday they got a chance to see the Sea Turtle Center and then we went to Sea island for drinks. Pretty Packed weekend. The week was long but the kids were great. This weekend on Saturday we had our "Ain't Your Momma's Egg Hunt". This is a full Island hunt with clues as you go to find out your next location. Nancy, Gina, Kacey and I were on the winning team finishing almost an hour before the other team!! We had a lot of fun and finished with amazing food! Its unreal that it is the beginning of April only two more months down here (tear) but still trying to figure out what is next for me! Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll have some sort of clue! Pictures below of are Winston our duck!!! My dad with a 500+ Live Oak tree named Lucy. A wild Cottonmouth in the Swamp. Dylan the loggerhead Sea Turtle at the Center and me with a red tailed boa!
Alright i've been slacking a bit...ok a lot! Well...Ben came down to visit and there was just way to much to show him in the couple days he was here! We got a chance to visit Okefenokee and the Sea Turtle center! Also ben helped us have another second place success at quiz or Trivia as they call it in the south! The weekend before ben came Kacey, steve, and chris and I went to swim with manatees in Crystal River Florida...the story is to long to go into! St. Simons had it annual chili fest which they did have ONE veggie chili so of course i voted for them. I have become an old lady and learned how to knit and already can't put down the scarf i'm making. Many busy weeks ahead with work but the time is flying by...which is a good thing and bad thing. I did receive word that I have been accepted to Cal State but for general studies and waiting on the Environmental Education department! This coming weekend we are all heading to Savannah for St. Patrick's day weekend and next weekend my parents come!! YAY! I'm so excited to show them the Golden Isles! Remember visitors are welcome and I have weekends off so come visit! My pictures are of the lunar eclipse which was amazing from the beach and ben in the swamp!
Last Monday Feb. 11th the Driftwood staff got a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel 18 miles to the north end of Cumberland Island. Here are some photos of the amazingness. Some notes: The big white mansion is Plum Orchard one of the 5 Carnegie's homes on the island(we got to go inside). The lamps are all Tiffany. The one with the piano is supposed to look like Turtle shell The little Chapel is The First African Baptist Church where JFK jr got married. The chimneys are whats left of slave quarters. Then there Alli ruining more of my shots!
So I haven't posted in a bit! This past week was our first week of teaching and it went really well. Our largest group of the year is already over! The week before, for training, we went out to Okefenokee Swamp! It was awesome the sandhill cranes were beautiful and we did see some gators! I do love the swamp!
Once again lots of things going on! Spent last thursday on Cumberland Island. Its located south of St. Simons and you have to take a ferry to get there. Cool things about Cumberland are the really rich human history...and when i mean rich i mean Carnegie rich! Also the island has an awesome shark tooth pit where you can find fossilized sharks teeth! I think the pictures will speak better then me! I have been a little slow on these cause I do not have internet in my apartment! I will continue to try and keep up but with classes starting next Monday I will be busy!
Training has been going amazingly well. The weather has been COLD! in the 30s so its cold! In the first 4 days of training I have dissected a fish, a squid, and a shark. I have been in the water even though its freezing and explored surrounding islands. Over the weekend Kacey and Steve and I took a little adventure...ok we got lost...and ventured to a plantation which was interesting to say the least!! So Today the group went to Jykell Island and did an awesome beach walk. Boneyard Beach is the some of the pictures you'll see here. We also visited the Sea Turtle rehabilitations center! The other pictures are various locations around where I live! Enjoy them, I love it here and the people are great!