Value Place Homestead - Miami
Travel Blogs from Homestead
Finally anhingas
... the shallow 3-5 ft depths.
Saw high flying spoonbills, flamingoes, great white and blue herons, ospreys, purple gallinules, brown and white pelicans, other herons, crocodiles and alligators.
The red, white and black mangroves revealed themselves, along with the highly poisonous Manchineel tree which native Calusas would tie enemies to, cut the bark and let the sap kill them.
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Start of a backstreet adventure
... to get to the stage where they were to host the night. I got to hug Nick as the crowd pushed to get to him. The night was buzzing. The Boys attempted to come down and party with us, saying "just party on and we will come and mingle". It didn't work like that though as everyone flooded to be close to them. They seemed to get of on it though. Considering Nick and AJ were not supposed to be drinking, they were sure putting it away. Howie went to bed really early, so i think he may have ...
'Glades, Rob & Leo and a little something extra
... and proposed to me. I always thought I would be pretty cool if this happened to me but no I said yes very quickly and sat there grinning like a cheshire cat, pretty much speechless!
Well, seeing as it was about 3am Wednesday morning UK time we had no one to tell so I proceeded to tell the waitress which resulted in free shots - this could come in very handy and might be a trick we repeat in bars across America!!
We have been on our trip for all of ...
Gatorland
... the machine was a peacock looking at the machine and at us like: What are you waiting for? Get me some food. We dropped a couple of quarters and fed the peacock and a few other animals. By then the school children had caught up to us and wanted to feed the animals. The exhibit that caught my attention was the venomous snakes of Florida. There are nine venomous snakes that call Florida home they range from three kinds ...
Everglades the Beautiful
... give me 20 seconds while I heat up the milk. But at the end of the day, she sure did know how to make a great cup of cappucino. Sad but true, the coffee machine has ants in her pants (literally) and is being sent to rehab. I don't know if its goodbye for ever or just for a week, ...