If you're like me, you'll hate theme parks. However, our family holiday to Florida this summer taught me that theme parks needn't be hell on earth. Keep an eye out for wildlife and, eventually, you'll stop tearing your hair out...
If you're like me, you'll buy all your clothes from Asda. You'll be 6ft 4 inches tall and you'll own a brown Citroen C4 Picasso with a large dent just above the nearside left rear wheel-arch. But that probably doesn't apply to you, so I'll start again. If you're like me, you'll hate theme parks. However, our family holiday to Florida this summer taught me that theme parks needn't be hell on earth. Keep an eye out for wildlife and, eventually, you'll stop tearing your hair out... Stupidly, we visited Kennedy space Centre on a rocket launch day. No chance of any wildlife here... After a week in Orlando, Lynne and I were ready for a holiday. Sarasota was only a 2 hour drive away... Opposite The Sandcastle Hotel on Lido Beach, Sarasota, there is a nature reserve with a mangrove swamp and a shoreline teaming with life.... While I fished, this little guy appeared from the shadows. Probably sniffed out my prawns (or my butty). Needless to say, the water-birds here are numerous and spectacular. Easy pickings, even with a small lens... Having recharged our batteries for a few days, we headed back to the theme park madness of Orlando. But could it really offer any more natural wonders? It was time to head back to Miami to catch our flight home. On the way, we stopped at Fort Lauderdale Beach which had an interesting nature reserve directly behind it, not a place for aracnaphobes though... All in all, a great holiday was had by the whole family. Thrills for the kids, beaches for Lynne and the odd wildlife winner for me. Not bad really. Oh, and because our outward flight was delayed due to a technical fault, our flights to Miami and back worked out totally free in the end. But don't tell that to the guy who spent £8K today on a one-way ticket from Miami to the UK. Hurricane Irma should hit Florida tomorrow, so I guess we got lucky with the weather!
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May 2019
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