Fort Myers, Florida 12-2011 Photo Gallery by Jack Hoying at pbase.com

Fort Myers, Florida 12-2011

A great way to spend the last week of 2011

Heading South with our kayaks and bikes	Our Condo	First evening on Ft Myers Beach	Reddish Egret
Colorful Bloom	Brenda & a Strangler Fig tree at the Mound House	American Oystercatcher hunting for food	American Oystercatcher with a small clam
Willet	American Oystercatcher with a conch	Biking on Lovers Key	Interesting seed pods
Zebra Longwing butterfly	Strange line of clouds	Colorful Butterfly	Large driftwood on Lovers Key
On Lovers Key	Kayaking at Manatee Park (Lee County)	11' Aligator on the Orange River	Close-up of Aligator
Large Softshell Turtle and painted turtle	Head and front claw detail of Softshell Turtle	Ibis taking flight	Brenda checking water plant bloom
On the Orange River	Little Blue Heron	Tri-Colored Heron	Green Heron
Snowy Egret	Sunrise over Ft. Myers	Evening Light Ibis	Three Ibis
Magnificent Frigatebird	Another nice Ft. Myers Sunset	Sandpiper	Brittle Star (Ophiuroidea)
Reddish Egret fishing	Reddish Egret scaring fish?	Sand Dollar	Gull with catch
Royal Tern	Wood Stork	Grandfather / Grandson taking bird photos	Snowbirds arriving from the North
Sanderling	Black-Bellied Plover in Flight	Plover	Osprey on a high branch
An Osprey in the tide	Tri-Color Heron	A fixer-upper tri-hull	Shrimping Fleet near Doc Ford's Resturant
Dinner at Doc Fords	Another Sunset	Front of our Condo Unit	Roseate Spoonbills on Sanibel Island (J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge)
8' aligator along the road	Sunning Aligator	Osprey sunning	Coral Creek Inlet
A beautiful last day of 2011	American White Pelican	Mixed Birds (Tricolored Heron, White Egret, Ibis, Great Blue Heron)	Willet
Sunning Cormorant	Moon setting over the Gulf of Mexico	New Year's Eve Fireworks