Micanopy, Cross Creek and Cedar Key

After four wonderful days of birding and socializing with new Roadtrek cohorts, it was time to move on.  Yesterday we visited Marjorie Rawlings homestead in Cross Creek.  It was there she wrote her Pulitzer prize winning book, "The Yearling", as well as "Cross Creek" and many other books.  It is a wonderful property, preserved by the Florida Park Service.  We even got to use pluck some sweet oranges and kumquats from well kept trees.  

Today brought a delightful trip to Cedar Key, followed by the Lower Suwannee Nature Drive and the swampy Manatee Springs State Park.  Photos are of sunset at Payne's Prairie Preserve, a small part of the  Marjorie Rawlings homestead, plucking oranges from one of the trees at the homestead, the prized Dutch Banded cows near Micanopy,   Manatee Springs (no manatees today, but gorgeous nonetheless), and a Great Egret and little Killdeer, both spotted at Cedar Key.