Monday May 27th 2024
Weather wise today seemed to be a clone of the last few. The temperature peaked in the upper 90s. When the wind was blowing it was comfortable outside. If it wasn’t blowing it was downright uncomfortable.

Not many of the weekend residents in the RV resort departed today. Just like most of the weekenders arrived a day or two before the actual weekend, I suspect they will be leaving a day or two after the holiday weekend. I still have many more neighbors than I did a week ago.

Traveling around the area today, I didn’t encounter as much traffic as I expected. Granted, I didn’t go into the theme park area, but the traffic wasn’t as bad as on an ordinary week day. I crossed over Interstate 4 in a normal backup area and traffic was flowing smoothly. From reports on the local TV channels this weekend has been particularly popular for tourism in the area. I guess it just wasn’t from travel by car. There were also reports of many canceled outbound flights because of the weather issues in the northern states, so travel isn’t fun for some people this weekend.

Walking around the RV resort this evening, it became clear I was an invader at a rabbit convention. Everywhere I turned I found new groups of bunnies. Most of the time they just froze and watched me, but some of the groups scattered as soon as they saw me. The volume of rabbits would tend to indicate they don’t have any natural predictors in the area.
So I guess this means the Burmese pythons have not yet invaded the area where you are. We did not see a single rabbit in Big Cypress.
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There is concern about the pythons, but I don’t think they’re here YET. I don’t recall hearing news stories about nearby sightings.
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