Feeding time for this bird in the Discovery Cove aviary. This particular one only ate maggots. yum!

Water's back on.

Came back from an excellent meal at Marconi Grill to find the water back on. It was a bit brown to start off with but soon righted itself.

Keep those legs crossed!

We've been suffering from a slightly leaky bath tap in our room, so this morning we asked reception to get someone to have a look at it whilst we were out.

By the time we returned, there was no leak. Great! we though... until we noticed that the sink tap and indeed to toilet were both empty of water too.

It turns out there's been a hotel-wide water failure. It's been off for a while it seems. Latest estimates are for a further 45 minutes before it comes back on...

We're off for something to eat - and to find a working loo !!!

Zeke

I'm doing my best Zeke (or is it Cletus?) impression as I steer an airboat along a creek in Kissimmee today.

We'd decided to go for a drive around Kissimmee to see what was there (not a great deal really) and we came across this air-boat rental place. Quite cheap and the creek / river was quite a peaceful place to go along, shame the airboat was so noisy!



It took about an hour to complete the 1.something miles to the turn around point and back.



These guys started just after us and probably finished a good 10 minutes before we got back. In fact, as we returned to the jetty, the people running the tours packed away and literally followed us out of the exit.



Who thinks they were waiting for us to leave!!

Early morning stroll

Went for a quick walk around the hotel this morning.
Dawn was just starting but it was still pleasant out there temperature-wise.



Picked up my polariser for my camera as well, as there was a note on my door saying I had a package waiting for me as we left this morning.

Detour!

Well, not exactly a detour, more correcting a mistake.

We decided to go up to the Belz Factory Area this afternoon as we drove home from Sea World.
I've got my TomTom Sat. Nav. with us and, so far it had been a big help. However, the POI (point of interest) I used to get to the Belz park turned out to be set against the edge of the I4 expressway. I could indeed see the shops, however, as we were travelling at 65MPH and I happened to be on the I4 at the time 'I had reached my destination' there was no way to actually get into the shopping area. There was no slip-way exit on I4 at that point.
Some berk had loaded up an incorrect location on TomTom for the Belz shops. :(

Anyhow, we had a long (read 25 mile !!!) drive to try to get us back to where we needed to be. Damn those long long stretches of motorway with now exits on them!

At one time we were going through a very leafy suburb of Orlando, Windermere. You can see here just how far out of our way we went to get to a place which was at the top of International Drive! One main issue was that at one point, I got onto a road that TomTom had no knowledge about (it was another 60MPH road) so every few seconds I was getting told to 'turn around when possible' not very easy on a motorway!
Needless to say, I've changed the POI to the correct location!

Found that there is a Starbucks on the hotel complex. It stays open until 10pm. That'll be helpful of an evening when we can't be bothered to make any coffee in the room (not that it tastes too good either!)

Topless !

In an attempt to not waste too much petrol on the car's air conditioner, we decided to go topless and put the roof down!



Once down it was reasonably cooling. However, with the sun very strong, it's lucky we didn't sunburn at all.