Myakka State Park

This past weekend Rico took the entire weekend off work.....Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Woohoo!!! Let the planning begin. Friday turned out to be a beautiful day. Finally, a day where it stayed in the 80s.....seemed like a cold front to us Floridians. Anyhow, we packed a picnic lunch, put on our gym shoes, packed the stroller and went to Myakka State Park for some hiking, a picnic lunch, sightseeing, and we even did some research on some camping possibilities for the winter time in the future.


We saw several different wild animals....below are some wild turkey. Come one and come all to the Alcala house for Thanksgiving. We've got dinner ready!!!

You wouldn't believe all the alligators we saw. Too many to count, literally. Below is one of the biggest that we saw.

Bambi taking a stroll. We were so close to all these animals. Not sure who was more scared of who???

Rico climbing the stairs to the expansion bridge to take a view of the entire park. He said it was amazing. I stayed below. I am happy with my feet ON THE GROUND!!!

Avery and I along the hiking trail, but notice the palm tree right behind me....see the neat angle it has grown in.