Tuesday March 19th 2024

The back side of yesterday’s cold front was in place this morning. It was sunny with a northeast wind. The humidity was way down and so was the temperature. Today’s high temperature was barely above the seventy degree mark. The overnight temperature is forecast to get below fifty degrees in this area.

Today was a slow day. It was well into the morning before I rolled out of bed. Breakfast was a slow dragged out meal and in general my motivation to get out and do anything was low. When I finally got out for my first walk of the day, I met a Gopher Tortoise that exemplified my mood. It was slowly plodding along nibbling at the grass here and there. This seemed to be a good day for the tortoises. I think I saw six different ones over the course of my two walks. A couple of the sightings were in the same general area so they may have been the same tortoise. I’m not up on the distinguishing features of a Gopher Tortoise for easy individual identification.

There wasn’t a lot of turnover in the campground today. It seems to be settled in for the week. A quick survey of the orange parking tags hanging from the rear view mirrors of the registered campers shows many people are leaving on Thursday or Friday, but my sample size was too small to be statistically viable. I am probably biased since I’m one of the Friday departures.