Wednesday, January 19, 2011

More Naples Botanical Garden

Here are some photos from the beautiful afternoon we spent at the Botanical Gardens on Sunday....I liked the name of this bamboo..it's called "dwarf Buddha Belly bamboo"....

Here are some more beautiful lily pads we saw in the Brazilian Garden...
And some more...
This powder puff blossom must have been extra sweet and having a "bad hair day" for these bees to be so interested...
Can't remember the name of these hot pink blossoms!
We found some literature on the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park (love these Florida names!) ...I think we are going to check that out tomorrow or we might check out the vendors at the Fort Myers RV show...we saw a brand new 2011 coach pull in at the resort yesterday with a new feature, a slide within a slide! Interesting! It's a Monaco Diplomat coach. We have absolutely no interest in any other coaches now that we have our Phaeton, but as far as vendors go, there are many many things that are interesting to RV owners once you have an RV. One of the things that concerns us is tire pressure--on our car and the RV. If we had a blowout on the car while towing, we would have no idea of that unless some motorist frantically honked and waved at us to communicate something wrong. Having had a tire blowout in the car recently while driving the car itself, makes us worry while towing it down the road. These systems install easily by way of radio frequency tire valve stems. If pressure drops, an alarm at the driver's dashboard in the RV lets you know immediately there's a problem. Hm-m-m-m, RV show or state park preserve--I vote for the preserve! We'll check out those tire monitoring systems at a later date, I'm sure.

The gater stories will have to wait till tomorrow..I'm still trying to find out how much truth there is to some information we were given at a local park about them...see you later, alligator!

1 comment: