Friday, November 30th to Sunday,
December 9th
We spent nine days at John Prince
County Park, in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County.
It's a large lovely park and we had a large lovely site by the large
lovely lake. And just outside the park,
wide streets with lots of traffic, shopping centers, and Walgreens and CVS at
just about every intersection.
By an unexpected coincidence, our
friends, Nona and Anthony, who are spending the winter at John Prince were just
across the road from us. They had told us about the park -- but neither they
nor we asked to be near each other. What
a surprise!
While the park was great, the little tiny swarming bugs were not. They didn't bite or sting, and they didn't land in our food, but they were all over and very annoying. Our friend Nona discovered that vacuuming them up worked just fine, so we kept our dust-buster handy and it was almost in constant use.
There was other wildlife in the
park. A group of, I think, Muscovy ducks
with green wings and red faces were always around. One day I noticed a lot of splashing in the
water and I noticed the ducks were exhibiting a behavior I hadn't seen before
-- they would rise up and splash their wings in a frenzy. I assume this was their way of catching fish
-- maybe the ducks startled fish into swimming towards the other ducks. When they finished with their water
activities, they came to the shore, again flapping their wings -- I assume to
dry them. It was quite a site.
An egret frequently came by to perch on our car and several ibises (or ibbies as we nicknamed them) fed in the grass nearby. And a cormorant dried his wings on a rock nearby.
As in most campgrounds, there
were many dogs (on leashes).
Casper, our friends' adorable dog, was a frequent visitor.For more on our activities during the week check out the next few blog posts.
And for more pictures click here: Lake Worth
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