With the beautiful weather we get here in winter and spring, it's always time for a cold beer in Everglades City especially in between the morning and afternoon fishing trip or anytime you are in the mood for stone crab claws. 
When you're not in the mood for a beer, you can enjoy the plethora of osprey which nest throughout the area.
Yes infidels, spent Saturday afternoon at City Seafood in Everglades City to enjoy the world's best stone crabs along with a nice cold one and the scenery which is the 10,000 islands.
Went by Greynolds Park in North Miami Beach today fellow infidels. This was a park that as a young child I used to love because it had this hill with a coral fort built atop a 20 foot hill. As a youngin, the hill seemed huge. We'd climb to the top and roll down the hill. As I've returned as an adult, it does not seem so high, but my son loved it and run and and down that hill. Here's an image of the famous fort . . .
Yes Infidels, spent the other day fishing the waters of 10,000 Islands in the Florida Everglades with Capt. Chas Wright of Chokoloskee Charters. Got macked big time. Ended up with 4 nice sized ones which I had to cook right away as the cap'n says that if you don't cook 'em within 24 hours, they get blech. So I cooked them right quick on watersoaked cedar planks to give them a nice smoky flavor. Had leftovers and made smoked fish dip out of them. The fish were biting pretty good. Nearly landed a 35 pound cobia, but the wanker broke the line as it was near the boat's net. Took Junior with me and he caught his first fish, a blue fish. He was thrilled. It was also his first time on a boat, so it was like a ride for him. He loved the bumps of the choppy waters of the Gulf. He had a grin from ear to ear. So I reckon I now have a new fishin' partner. He's still too young for beer though.
Howdy infidels. Great weekend shooting at Wakodahatchee where I even got a pic of this parrothead who was the pet of one of the photographers.
Shot of the produce at Robert is Here in Florida City, while on break from an Everglades Avian shoot. Line was out the door for the milk shakes (I was craving mamay). Couldn't wait all day, so I took photos of fruits and veggies. So here you have it. I close with some words from the great music icon, Brian Wilson:
Greetings infidels. Tiring weekend. Went shooting throughout the urban and wacko areas of the City as well as the serene wetland areas. Hadn't done any shots of the skyline since I've gone digital so this weekend was a good time as any. Here ya go! 
Most infidels I know are asleep in their beds at 6:15 a.m. and not in the heart of the swamp like I was last Saturday. Usually 7:00 a.m. is my time of arrival in the Glades for nature work. But it is amazing what getting there one hour earlier will bring. This usually mundane landscape during the day takes on a life of its own at dawn and especially in the minutes before sunrise. As here, even the typically ugly Turkey Buzzard looks majestic perched above the waters of Taylor Slough in Everglades National Park. The shot was taken from the easternmost boardwalk of the Anhinga Trail. I saw, but did not get the shot in time a bunch of river otters that morning. Man they were big. The mist added a sense of eerieness over the landscape that morning and I am now determined to get up at 4:30 a.m. more often to make it there for the light show. As Marjorie Stoneman Douglas remarked, "There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them...." Until you see the Glades in the light of an early dawn, you've truly never seen it. The birds must take sights like this for granted each morning, but then again, perhaps they know the secret to the universe and laugh at our perpetual quest fto achieve deliverance from our lack of understanding the unknown.
