Florida

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Our trip through Florida started with a stop in the capital, Tallahassee, where we saw beautiful creatures throughout Wakulla Springs State Park. After meeting up with Cindy and George in Sarasota, Paxton spent a few days with them while we headed south to Miami/Miami Beach.

Wakulla Springs & Tallahassee

Mama Manatee with her calf
Baby alligator
Eerie morning fog on Wakulla river
Mesmerizing bug swarm

Tampa and Sarasota

We met up with Cindy and George to watch the Women’s world cup final in Tampa on the way to Sarasota
After USA won
A celebratory shot…
…of seltzer
On the beach of Sarasota

Miami Beach

On Ocean Blvd
The Versace mansion is now part of a resort hotel
Get a stiff drink to wash down your whopper at the BK Whopper Bar in Miami Beach
Inside the Delano resort hotel
One of Miami Beach’s many feral cats

Miami & Little Havana

Miami River
Free boat parking
A house built upon an old coral reef in Coconut Grove
Wild peacocks roaming the neighborhood
Watching (and betting on) a Jai Alai match
Wynwood is the heart of Miami’s design disrict
Inside El Pub

Leesburg

Aunt Cindy took Paxton on his first horse ride!
On a hike near Ocala National Forest

On the road in Florida

A convenient drive-thru option
They must have got the whisky for the “World’s only whiskey peanuts” from the Whiskey Barn drive-thru
Guard dinosaur
In the Everglades