Happy Birthday, JADEN!

Happy 10th Birthday to Jaden from Apalachicola, Florida!  We love you!

These men are seining for shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico, near Port Saint Joe on Florida's Forgotten Coast.

Apalachicola 

Shrimp boats docked along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Apalachicola.

See the outboard motor on this house boat?  It was traveling down the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Carrabelle

The "World's Smallest Police Station" came into being in 1963 so that the police in this small town could watch the traffic on US Highway 98 from their squad car, keep dry in inclement weather, and answer the phone in emergencies!  Tourists kept sneaking in and making long distance calls from the phone so eventually they took the dial out and the phone only received incoming calls.

Leon Sinks Geological Area

Gopher Hole

Fisher Creek Sink

The Woodville Karst Plain runs from Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico.  A karst is terrain that rain and groundwater have changed by dissolving the underlying limestone bedrock.  A wet sinkhole is an opening to the Floridian aquifer.

Tallahassee 

I really liked the candy-striped awning on the Capitol.  The awning was on the building when it was built through the 1920s.  They were placed back on the building during the 1980s restoration that returned the structure to it's historic 1902 appearance.

The Florida State Capitol Building in Tallahassee.  In front is the Historic Capitol and the tower behind it is the new Capitol Building.