Wednesday August 16th 2023

I was a very lazy camper today. I sat down to breakfast shortly before 9:30 and didn’t get moving until 1:30 in the afternoon. There was very little eating involved. Most of my time was spent reading various news stories and blogs on the internet followed by a handful of YouTube videos.

The knowledge that thunderstorms would arrived soon was the catalyst to get me moving. The sun was visible through the clouds most of the morning, but as the afternoon progressed the cloud cover thickened. My only walk around the RV park was under overcast skies. The temperature was around the ninety degree mark and it was humid. The geese were hiding out somewhere else this afternoon. The Green hereon that usually takes off long before I can get my camera up was more accommodating today. I was able to get a nice picture of the little hereon before it retreated from the near bank to the trees on the far bank. It is a very colorful bird.

The sky got very dark to the northwest around 2PM. I prepared for a major storm, but the storm seemed to pass to the north. The first storm of the day to bring wind, water and lightening to this area started at 3PM. It brought heavy rain for about ten minutes followed by an hour or so of light rain. The second wave of storms came in about 6PM, but the worst part of this storm seemed to miss this area to the north as well. Overall today was a more normal summer day in Florida. It wasn’t extremely hot and the rain storms were scattered and fairly brief.